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Horse owners increasingly being targeted by thieves

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“Horse owners are also being asked to be vigilant in case this is an emerging trend.” So what are Lincolnshire Police warning horse owners about?

Well, anecdotal evidence suggests that horse box and trailer theft is on the increase.

 John Hicks of rural crime prevention and rural security solutions specialists, Rural Property Watch (www.ruralpropertywatch.co.uk) said: “With horse boxes being worth anything up to in excess of £100,000 horse box theft is a serious problem for horse owners. Stolen horse boxes are often hidden for many months before being re-sprayed and resold, then more often than not being shipped overseas.”

 “The issue is how can I prevent my horse box from being stolen, or help it to be found if it is stolen?” John added.

From stopping theft of tack from livery stables or thefts of horse boxes and trailers through to stopping people unlocking gates or, worse still, imposing physical harm on your defenceless animals, Rural Property Watch  are here to help.

Rural Property Watch have worked with manufacturers and developed a range of alarms and detection systems specifically for use in rural situations, in areas where power and communication lines are hard to reach. Systems use a dual beam technology to significantly reduces false activations by animals and weather and can be wirelessly located at key remote entrances giving you peace of mind at all times.

Rural Property Watch farm and rural area alarms can be fitted with various accessories to fit any situation and have been approved by the UK Police, accredited with a Secured by Design™ certificate. In addition, for high value items secret horse box trackers can be fitted allowing it to be located to within a few feet of its current location!

Rural Property Watch offer a free site survey to help you identify the issues and to recommend affordable solutions.

For more details on how Rural Property Watch can secure your farm, remote outbuildings or barn, or give you early warning of an intruder or arson attack, call on 0845 862 0844 (local call rate) or e-mail info@ruralpropertywatch.co.uk

Vacant Commercial Property Management Good Practice

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Vacant commercial property security specialists, FRL Group (www.frl-group.co.uk) welcomed the launch of a new Good Practice Guide to Vacant Property Management.

The British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) and vacant property contractor SitexOrbis recently launched the BIFM Good Practice Guide to Vacant Property Management. The 24-page guide aims to provide information to facilities managers who have empty buildings to manage as part of their property portfolio. It was launched at the Facilities Show, the facilities event in May at the NEC Birmingham, beside IFSEC. The guide is available online at www.bifm.org.uk/gpgs.

The guide explores the reasons why a number of commercial buildings are becoming empty, highlights some of the key problems facing vacant properties, and explains how facilities managers can close buildings and manage empty properties on a long-term basis keeping them safe, secure, in line with their insurer’s expectations and ready for reoccupation, sale or demolition. The A5 document, written by Mark Cosh, director of SitexOrbis and sponsored by the organisation, was peer reviewed by Allister Smith, property risk manager, Commercial Property Underwriting – Strategy at insurers Aviva.

The guide includes original data from the vacant property management survey of BIFM members in autumn 2011, conducted by SitexOrbis and the proposed contents received feedback from delegates at the British Institute of Facilities Management 12th quarterly training day at Bristol.

John Hicks of FRL Group said: “Security for vacant commercial premises is advancing almost daily with the new technologies becoming available. We already offer flexible portable wireless alarm systems which do not require electricity or telephone connection – either for short term hire or outright purchase. Now, we have added wireless cctv camera units which, when triggered, take still photographs and send them as MMS messages to the client’s mobile phone or our central alarm monitoring station.”

FRL Group, part of Facilities Resource Limited, offer their clients a  fully-insured key holder and alarm response service in addition to traditional mobile patrol visits out-of-hours, static guards, cctv and traditional access control and intruder alarms systems.

Uniquely, FRL Group also offer a service called FRL Guardians. Here, the UK based security company will place SIA-licensed security guards, who have been carefully vetted, to reside in unoccupied residential or hotel premises to deter intruders. They will also undertake basic maintenance to ensure that the condition of the premises do not deteriorate without the landlord’s knowledge.

 

 

Security guarding firms in Clacton, Essex

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Introducing Clacton Security

Clacton Security (www.clactonsecurity.com) is an Essex-based security firm providing manned guarding, static guards, retail security staff and event security throughout the Clacton-on-Sea, Frinton, Walton on the Naze, Great Holland, Jaywick and wider Essex area.

This local security business seeks to protect your assets, your property, your staff and your visitors in the CO postcode areas through offering:

* Manned Guarding by SIA accredited and fully trained security guards

* CCTV Monitoring

* Physical security works including barriers, security fencing, bollards, security lighting, access controls

* CCTV installation and maintenance

* Event Security

* Retail Security

* Security Receptionists and Concierge staff

Clacton Security is a specialist division of UK-wide commercial security management and security outsourcing consultancy, Facilities Resource Limited (FRL Group: www.facilitiesresource.com    www.frl-group.co.uk).

For further information about Clacton Security, please visit their website www.clactonsecurity.com

 

And please listen out for our commercials running on Clacton Radio www.clactonradio.com

 

 

Rural Property Watch news update

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As we head towards the winter season, householders and organisations in rural areas are offered some topical advice by security specialists Rural Property Watch:
Dogs. Some Police forces have seen a rise in the theft of dogs, in particular terriers and gun dog breeds. You are advised to ensure that you are aware of your dog’s location and security arrangements including micro chipping and or tattooing.
Quads. Christmas is coming and some people can’t help themselves but to thieve. Quads are again on the increase for theft. Record all details of your quads and any valuable property. Rural Property Watch offers a range of cost-effective portable alarm systems and CCTV systems specially designed for rural properties even where power or a telephone line is not available.
Dale Farm Travellers. As many of you are aware the eviction of travellers in Essex has gone ahead. At this stage Police and the travellers do not know where they are going. This maybe a good time to review your perimeter security to land and open spaces etc.especially security fencing (our colleagues at Asset Fencing would be pleased to offer advice – visit www.assetfencing.com)
Heating Oil theft prevention. As people fill up their heating oil tanks in preparation for the impending big freeze predicted by the weather forecasters, so the temptation increases for thieves to target oil tanks. Rural Property Watch offers a very cost-effective remote heating oil tank alarm system which alerts the householder by SMS text message that fuel in the tank has suddenly dropped.
Rural Property Watch (www.ruralpropertywatch.co.uk – a division of Facilities Resource Limited: FRL Group) offer rural residential, equine, village halls, churches, schools and commercial premises protection against theft, vandalism, noise and litter nuisance, graffiti and criminal damage – but more than this, give people in rural communities peace of mind.

Fly tipping prevention, deterrents and prosecution

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One of our Facilities Resource Limited (FRL Group) mobile security patrols came across fly tippers in the act of dumping rubbish and building waste in a private lane belonging to a client.

So how can you deal with fly tipping?

Well, in this particular instance, the patrol was single crewed, it was late at night and it was in a secluded rural location. With there being two fly tippers with four large Alsation dogs, it was not appropriate for the mobile security guard to approach them.

Our 24 hour central Control Room contacted Police who attended the scene very quickly and dealt with the situation.

Our Rural Property Watch division (www.ruralpropertywatch.co.uk) say that fly tipping is the illegal dumping of waste. It can vary in scale significantly from a bin bag of rubbish to large quantities of waste dumped from trucks.

Fly-tipped waste litter may be found anywhere, such as roadsides, in lay-bys or on private land such as our client’s private lane.

Fly-tipping is a rural problem because:

• It is estimated to cost £100-£150 million every year
to investigate and clear up, the cost falls
on taxpayers and private landowners.

• Fly-tipping poses a threat to humans and wildlife,
damages our environment, and spoils our enjoyment
of our towns and countryside.

• As with other things that affect local environment
quality, areas subject to repeated fly- tipping may
suffer declining property prices and local businesses
may suffer as people stay away

Fly Tipping is a criminal offence and is an arrestable offence and the maximum penalties are:

  • In Magistrates Court – Fine £50,000 and / or 12 months in prison In Crown Court – Unlimited fine and / or 5 years in prison Forteiture of vehicle used for fly tipping
  • ASBO (Anti Social Behaviour Order) or CRASBO following conviction
  • Driving Bans, Community Punishment Orders, Conditional Discharge, Formal Cautions, Costs Awards, Referral Orders
  • £300 Fixed Penalty Fines for failing to produce waste transfer notes
  • £300 Fixed Penalty Fines for failing to produce waste carrier’s registration certificate
  • £2,500 fine for dropping litter

Rural Property Watch offer a range of anti fly tipping counter measure solutions including installation of covert and highly visible surveillance CCTV, dummy cctv units, rapid deployment alarms and cctv units, manned surveillance, secret surveillance teams, photographic evidence gathering, warning signs and support of publicity following successful prosecutions.

Rural Property Watch have cctv and alarm solutions capable of working in low light, without telephone or internet access and without access to power. They can be linked by GPS and GPRS to alert mobile security patrols by text of intruders; with some cctv installations, the images from these surveillance cameras can be viewed live, as they happen, on computers and android mobile phones.

Most of the Rural Property Watch equipment are entirely portable enabling you to move them from site to site.

Rural Property Watch manned guarding services can provide you with either a high profile visible presence or concealed covert teams of trained, former military personnel, whose presence will go undetected by fly tippers. They will give you early warning of issues and evidence for prosecution

How CCTV can add a new dimension to Retail Security

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Here, John Hicks of FRL Group (Facilities Resource Limited) discusses how CCTV can add a new dimension to Retail Security

As an addition to retail security guards, the ‘front line’ of security, customer care and goodwill in retail establishments, CCTV is an essential tool as both a deterrent, to shoplifters and thieving staff, and for providing evidence for prosecution.

However, when CCTV technology is integrated with the retailer’s POS-data or other physical security systems such as Access Control, it can really help you prevent fraud and reduce shrinkage.

New systems on the market can fully integrate with existing security systems and send automatic alerts, to allow managers to identify problem situations or suspicious activities happening within, or immediately outside, the store or warehouse.

Video and associated data can be accessed from anywhere across a network. So the retail environment can be monitored and managed, and issues investigated, locally or remotely – even on a manager’s mobile phone.

Integrating POS data into a CCTV system could provide the video associated with any suspicious transaction, so you can:

  • Combat employee and customer fraud
  • Reveal mismatches in transactions
  • Identify sweet-hearting and other fraudulent
    transactions

Integrated IP CCTV solutions can feature video analytics and can integrate with any physical security application (Access Control, RFID, EAS) to help managers:

  • Detect loitering, access tampering and equipment
    removal
  • Detect unauthorised movement of RFID and EAS
    tagged products
  • Check video against card swipe for identity
    match in protected areas

Want to know more? Then visit the FRL Group website: www.frl-group.co.uk for more details or drop us an e-mail at info@frl-group.co.uk.

FRL Group Retail Security supplies SIA-registered retail security guards for stores, shopping centres and other retail premises in London and across the south of England – protecting staff and assets whilst maintaining high standards of customer care.

UK CCTV Installation & Maintenance, another specialist division of FRL Group, offers CCTV surveillance cameras installation and maintenance to protect property and people in London, Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire and the south of England.

FRL Group is a trading name of Facilities Resource Limited.