If you purchase an intruder alarm from a DIY store and fit it yourself, there is no back up or support if it becomes faulty and you may not be able to stop the siren from sounding, especially annoying for you and for your neighbours at 3am in the morning! DIY alarms do NOT comply with any insurance requirements for a NACOSS, EN50131 & PD6662:2010 Intruder Alarm System as they cannot be covered by a maintenance agreement with a 4-hour engineer response time. They also CANNOT communicate to an Alarm Receiving Centre to obtain a police response.All DSC Security alarm systems comply with insurance requirements, will be installed to a high standard and there will always be back-up help from our engineers who will visit if necessary to investigate a fault, 24-hours a day, providing there is a maintenance contract in force.

Technology has been racing ahead for many years now and intruder alarm equipment is much more reliable now than it was in the past. DSC Security is an ISO 9001:2008 Quality Assured Company and always uses high quality, award-winning equipment when installing an alarm. This, coupled with our fully trained and experienced staff, ensures that false alarms from within the system are very unlikely.

With wireless Intruder Alarms now proven and much more reliable than in the past, we are able to install a system without the use of any cables. The main control unit needs to be connected to Mains Power but all the detectors transmit wireless signals to the receiver. Our engineers have the training and the necessary equipment to ensure that they leave your house as clean and tidy as they found it, without any need for you to re-decorate or readjust. The only visible sign that our engineers have been should be the new alarm equipment!

DSC Security install the most user-friendly systems ever! The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) shows full English text rather than just a number or an LED flashing when something is wrong, so you immediately know where a potential problem is, rather than having to find the manual to decipher what a flashing ‘3’ or ‘F4’ means! But the best bit is the proximity tags that we can provide. They allow you to simply set and unset the alarm, by swiping a small tag device across the keypad. A 4-digit code can be used if you prefer, however the tags make life so easy that codes are rarely used.

If you’re not in your house, there are a number of ways that this can be done but the most popular is using push notification to an App if you have a Smart Phone. This alerts you to any signals from the alarm and the App also has the facility to set/unset the alarm remotely if you wish. For other methods of alarm communication via an Alarm Receiving Centre including Police Response, please see the section on alarm monitoring.

No problem! DSC Security can install ‘Pet-Friendly’ detectors, which will not activate when cats or small dogs are in the area. These detectors will still detect humans, however, so your property is still protected from intruders.

Not nearly as expensive as 15-20 years ago, when the average alarm system could cost up to £2000. DSC Security can install a small, simple NACOSS Gold wireless alarm system with 12 months warranty and 12 months FREE maintenance from as little as £495 (inc. VAT). The average cost of an alarm system to a 3-bedroom sized house is usually between £600 and £700, but obviously it depends how many detectors you want; your budget and your requirements will determine our recommendations.

It is a proven fact that in a given area of houses, the properties WITHOUT an intruder alarm are MUCH more likely to be targeted by potential burglars. Enter your Post Code into the "How Safe is your Area" section on our Home page to see what the crime levels are in your area. A lack of intruder alarm system allows burglars plenty of time to look around and choose what they wish to steal without being disturbed. Visible signs of an intruder alarm when potential burglars are ‘casing’ an area put them off and make them turn their attention to properties with no sign of an intruder alarm. A burglar breaking into a house that has an intruder alarm will instantly trigger a siren that cannot be silenced, giving them no time to scour the property for valuables and thus leaving them empty handed. Indeed burglars are likely to flee as soon as the alarm sounds because they don’t know who is looking out of their window or whether the alarm is being monitored by an Alarm Receiving Centre.