Ethos Public Relations Manchester

ALMO joint venture means enhanced security for tenants

by Ethos public relations

Tenants in Rochdale will benefit from state-of-the-art versatile alarm systems thanks to the development of a new joint venture.

ALMO Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) has joined forces with Safeguard Security Solutions Ltd (SSSL), a local supplier of 'high tech' alarm products. The new joint venture company Securecom Limited will help reduce crime and the fear of crime within the 14,000 households RBH manages in the borough.

Eugene Wilson, Director of Property Services, who championed the project, said: "The key difference with these new alarms is their versatility. They can be used as a traditional alarm, or we can link them to panic or sensor alarms, bringing greater pace of mind to vulnerable tenants.

"We can fit them to boilers to stop theft and when our properties become empty they can be automatically converted to special 'void' alarms which include infra-red and sound sensors. And there is no cost to tenants."

Securecom Limited plan to fit the new alarms to all RBH properties over a rolling seven year programme.

Several hundred homes have already been fitted with the alarm in a pilot programme and when asked for their comments, RBH tenants gave an overwhelmingly positive response.

Posted at 28^th September 2009