The British Security Industry Association’s Security Systems Section has been bestowed with a Metropolitan Police Service Award for its contribution to reducing false intruder alarm activations in the Capital.

The Section won the award for a number of different initiatives it has developed as part of the industry’s fight to cut back on false alarms. These have included the creation of a BSIA Security Systems Strategy, the Section’s contribution to work on British and European Standards for intruder alarms and the partnership approach adopted with the Metropolitan Police Service.

Speaking about the award, the BSIA’s technical and membership services director Alex Carmichael told SMT: “The Security Systems Section has consistently worked with police forces over a number of years to reduce the level of false intruder alarms across the country. This award from the Metropolitan Police Service is a great testament to the Section’s ongoing commitment over this issue.”

Steve Kimber – vice-chairman of the Security Systems Section – added: “The Section has long believed that it is only through partnership working with the police that false alarms might be successfully reduced.

“I would like to thank all of the British Security Industry Association’s Security System Section Members for their hard work over these past few years, and also for their obvious dedication to improving industry standards.”

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SMT