When speaking to security professionals this is the norm. Although the stable door lies open and the horse is bolted, another fact of security is that intruders will come back knowing that after a matter of weeks your home will be restocked with the possessions that you have replaced.

Let us hope that the choice you are making is from a point of wisdom rather than error and you are ensuring your homes valuables are safe. An alarm box is the first step and ensures in 80% of cases a likely intruder will choose the house on your street with no alarm box and so no hassle of noise and potential interruption. The next step is ensuring a system is installed which can perform the right tasks to meet your lifestyle and level of threat. This also involves working with a security company rather than a DIY effort in order that the system is of a quality, installed tidily and covers the points of entry effectively.

Movement detectors, IRDs (infra Red Devices), are pretty much unbeatable and will alert you, if connected properly to a communication device, that somebody is in your home. Now we know this, what comes next? Unless you have an actual visual, calling the police is not going to lead to a high priority race to your home lights flashing sirens screaming. An alarm is going off, car or home, it is a norm in many cities and towns. Hopefully somebody else is going to find their remote and turn it off. Maybe a kindly neighbour will look toward your home, but at three in the morning will Mr Jones wander through your garden, will his wife let him? Is it what you really want?