Enhanced security for council tenants

Tenants in Rochdale will benefit from new alarm systems thanks to the development of a new joint venture company.

ALMO Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) has joined forces with Securecom Limited, a local supplier of electronic security products. The new joint venture company Safegard Security Solutions (SSSL) 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."

SSSL 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.