A lot of people have alarms in their houses but there may be a hole in your defense that you're unaware of.
While an MP in the Legion at the headquarter regiment in Aubagne it fell to us to test and evaluate the security on the Generals' house. When I transferred into the police militaire I discovered nobody had been successful in infiltrating their security for quite some time.
I went by the house and noticed it had a tile roof so I climbed up the back in the butt crack of dawn, lifted some tiles and went through the attic. Guess what? Yep, nobody alarms their attic. It was easy to go through the attic trapdoor and voila, much to the chagrin of the in house valet/security guard I was inside.
So, if you have a security system in the house and the sort of roof that's readily accessible, it might be time to upgrade your system and have the company come put a motion detector up there as well.
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A blog by self defense instructor Nick Hughes, a former French Foreign Legionnaire para commando, bodyguard and black belt in multiple disciplines. A blog that will cover self protection in general with an emphasis on local crime trends to boot.
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How very appropriate. Several houses on our street have been burgled in the last few months by the burglar doing this. He'd lift the tiles, drop into the loft space, then burrow down through each bedroom ceiling so as not to trip the alarm on the upper hallway (which is the only place upstairs most houses have them). Or, he'd smash a bedroom window so as not to trip the upper hallway alarm. As I understand it one of the problems with putting a motion detector in the loft is that it's susceptible to variation in temperature and can cause some false alarms - not good on the heart at 3am! The other option is to alarm all the upstairs rooms with sensors too.
How very appropriate. Several houses on our street have been burgled in the last few months by the burglar doing this. He'd lift the tiles, drop into the loft space, then burrow down through each bedroom ceiling so as not to trip the alarm on the upper hallway (which is the only place upstairs most houses have them). Or, he'd smash a bedroom window so as not to trip the upper hallway alarm. As I understand it one of the problems with putting a motion detector in the loft is that it's susceptible to variation in temperature and can cause some false alarms - not good on the heart at 3am! The other option is to alarm all the upstairs rooms with sensors too.
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