Great statistics impress ACPO

Those suppliers in the UK lone worker industry who appreciate the value in a quality and speedy Police response to incidents have welcomed the publishing of statistics on the number of subscribers and incidents.

Collated by the BSIA, the latest statistics show that in September 2011 there were 94143 subscribers in the UK of BS8484 compliant lone worker solutions. There were 17549 activations (alarms) of which only 70 needed to be passed to the Police representing just 0.3% of total alarms.

When compared to intruder and hold up alarms where false alarm rates of alarms passed through to the Police often sit at 15% of alarms or more, this reflects very well on those providing quality solutions. For end clients, this means less likelihood of the Police not responding quickly and where lone worker alarms are deployed instead of hold-up alarms (in retail for example), less likelihood of client URN's being removed.