I suspect you are right. Or that they had already triggered a few false alarms to ensure that the police would not bother to respond (an insane systemic weakness in monitored alarms if you think about it).
Part of their security is provided by a monitored alarm service which normally results in a phone call to the premises and then a police callout (and also callout to the duty key holder to meet them on site).
That seems to be the police view of domestic security too. They are no longer much interested in burglaries.
Does make me wonder what they all do these days?
Finding :
They also stole the hard drive from the video recorder.
Andy
Wouldn?t be possible with a well designed CCTV system which has that well separated from the cameras.
Guess that ties in with lack of response to the alarm call, no remote monitoring of CCTV meant no confirmation of intruders on premises.
Only CCTV images left appear to come from building next doors system.
Could have got a better security system out of Maplins , seriously...
Yeah, that was my reaction too.
Going to be interesting to see what changes they make now and how they convince their customers that it can't happen again. Tho maybe there isn't much competition.
Some of their previous customers won't be future customers purely by virtue of the fact that they longer have any need for a safety deposit box. :-)
Seems astonishing that in this day and age the video isn't streamed offsite and subject to a motion detector when nominally locked down. A local HD is no use if the bad guys are already inside the building.
I know of amateur observatories with this sort of technology to guard against miscreants breaking into remote facilities when no one is there. Basically a fancy version of an IP addressable webcam.
Sure, but I doubt that applies to very many of them.
In message , michael adams writes
That prompted me to sit here and watch the whole episode on YouTube, last night. How sad is that? Delighted, though, to discover that Dudley Sutton is still alive and kicking at 82.
Its easy to do motion detect and email stuff to a google account.
On 10/04/2015 20:52, Martin Brown wrote: ...
Perhaps there was a shortage of hardened steel ball bearings in 1949.
In those days they could have adapted a medieval answer to mining attacks on castles. Castle builders sometimes built underground water filled tunnels to flood any mines dug towards the walls. In this case they could have built two vaults with a cavity between them that was connected to the London Hydraulic Power Company mains. Water coming out at 800 psi would probably have stopped anybody.
Nice idea - but with the caveat "would" - the LHM was decommissioned quite a while back :-o
Indeed, After 1977 they would have had to find an alternative source of high pressure water, although a very large volume of water at low pressure might do the job.
Mind you, they might have been relying upon an entirely different form of security. It is claimed that one of the customers is a major crime family:
On 15/04/15 17:45, Nightjar Indeed, After 1977 they would have had to find an alternative source of
I was expecting something like that.
I do not value the kneecaps of the vault boss not the gang if they are ever identified...
Remember the scene from Charlie Varrick where the bank boss gets dealt with?
Which would have meant, in this case, major disruption of comms via the cables now pulled into the LHPC pipes!
A lot less sad than forking out around ?50ish for the DVD box set, having already conscienctiously taped them all off air at least twice, taking care to skip all the commercials
IMDB'ing him he's still working regularly as well. I last remember seeing him in the "Football Factory" from 2004, but he seems to have been a regular in things like "Emmerdale" and "Holby City".
michael adams
Bank of France and Fort Knox supposedly have floodable vaults
There goes my patent application then.
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