I have an arc and arcs are required to hold sia as it is a licensable activity although after all this time the sia has decided rvrcs only need a security guarding license rather than public space CCTV that we all spent years getting.

Ah,   I wonder maybe thats why response team have SIA for the 'Response Centre'   I take it you need sia for monitoring alarms.

No, not alarms just CCTV. Keyholding and guarding are also licensable activities.

matts trying to win friends and influence people. crack on and piss me off

careful, seems Google searches may be pulling chunky supporters off the street, before you know it we'll be overrun with anti inspectorate types.

About time new blood was encouraged

Back in the 80s, paralleling PIRs was the only way to minimise false alarms in harsh environments.  This was before dual tecs were available.  The other option was active beams, but difficult with racking on all walls.

I remember a warehouse (Jabro Cash and Carry in Luton if I remember correctly?) with these:

http://www.thesecurityinstaller.co.uk/community/gallery/image/317-ademco-652/

(the larger version, and the L/R lens) down all the isles of the Cash and Carry - DOUBLED UP.

 

The checkouts were really funny in this place in the 80s as they didn't have bar codes.  Customers with their trolleys piled up used to arrive at the checkouts.  There was a guy that used to "read out" all the stock codes to the checkout girl...

"fourty-two....zero one two one eight three one Silk Cut"...."thirty one...zero two four six one one zero zero Silk cut ten pack", etc!!

 

Matt (not from Vidionics as title suggests)

Evolution ESS

When they finally got scanning, did they shout out 'thick black, long space, thin black, two thick black lines....'?