My alarm company also sends in the police when necessary. What makes Sonitrol any different?
Your alarm company detects an intrusion after the criminals are already inside your premises, if at all. They then look at a little red light – and the operator who may be monitoring as many as 15,000 systems simultaneously then calls your business to see if anyone will answer the phone. Most criminals don’t pick up your phone. The monitoring station then begins phoning the call list to ask you what you think they should do next. At this point you must decide if you want to risk the ‘False Alarm’ fine, or drive down to the store/warehouse in the wee hours to see if the bad guys are still there, or were ever there. If you do make the late night drive with your kid’s baseball bat, it will probably be 30-60 minutes later and you will still likely beat the police. Sonitrol makes that security decision for you based on us listening to what is going on inside your facility – and our average response time with police cars to the door in North America is 3.5 minutes. Since 1977, with our Polic
