| Each year thousands of homes, businesses, | | | | work. Every night he gets a call from the security |
| apartments, and other buildings are burglarized. This is | | | | system monitoring company saying that there is an |
| just a fact of life. From the dawn of time, there have | | | | alarm going off at the store. Night after night, the store |
| always been people who would rather steal from | | | | manager drives to the store to find that nothing is |
| someone than earn for themselves. | | | | wrong. No broken windows, no open doors, no one in |
| For those who are proactive and attempt to thwart | | | | the store, no apparent reason for the alarm to have |
| would be burglars, nothing can be more frustrating than | | | | sounded. After this happens a few times, the store |
| when they pay good money to install a burglar alarm | | | | manager is isn't likely to rush over to the store when |
| system and they still fall prey to an unscrupulous | | | | the monitoring company calls to report an alarm. The |
| burglar. How could this happen? They have a security | | | | manager may even know exactly what the problem is. |
| system. It might even be a top of the line system. | | | | Maybe there is a motion detector that is set off every |
| Even with good equipment, there are some things that | | | | night because some birds got into the store and fly |
| can go wrong and cause a burglar alarm to fail. | | | | around at night. The store manager is trying to cut |
| The most common reason that burglar alarms might | | | | costs so it seems that the easiest thing to do would |
| fail isn't the systems fault at all. It's the operators fault. | | | | be to turn off that particular monitor. |
| They simply forget to arm the security system. It | | | | It doesn't take very much of an imagination to see |
| sounds silly but it's true. Many hundreds of burglaries | | | | how these few examples can lead someone being |
| occur because the system wasn't even turned on. | | | | burglarized because the security system seemed to |
| Another reason that a security system might fail to do | | | | fail. There are times when the burglar alarm system |
| it's job is due to improper installation. That's right, you | | | | might simply malfunction but it's not very likely. Most of |
| can have the best designed system with the best | | | | them time when a burglar alarm doesn't work there is |
| components and it will be useless if it's not installed | | | | a cause that probably could have been avoided had |
| correctly. | | | | people been paying attention to keeping the system |
| Yet another reason is due to malfunctioning equipment. | | | | functioning properly and responding appropriately to |
| Here's an interesting scenario for you to think about. A | | | | alarms. |
| store manager is home sleeping after a long day at | | | | |