Too often in the home alarm industry, we hear of innocent consumers who are lied to and cheated by door-to-door salespeople.  This is largely because of the  routine use of high-pressure sales tactics and outright lying to gain a sale.  Often there are often hidden fees which are never discussed.  Sometimes the door-to-door salesperson will [...]

Using crime statistics gathered from 2004 to 2009, the following list shows the top 20 neighbourhoods in Toronto for break and enters. It is interesting to note that the neighbourhoods with the highest rate of break ins are not necessarily the wealthiest, as you might expect. There are many factors which may contribute to a [...]

Many people ask us questions everyday about the products and services that we use at AlarmForce.  In this feature our goal is to educate you on the importance of using motion sensors as part of your security solution.
What are Motion Sensor Alarms?
Motion Sensor Alarms detect movement in a specified area or beam of coverage. These [...]

Apartments are easy pickings for burglars. Most apartment buildings do not have a monitoring system at the entrance. Some require an access code to get in. It is difficult to prevent non-residents from getting into the building. All day long there is foot traffic; someone might ask to be let in because they couldn’t reach [...]

As with most others the home security industry also has seen advances on the technology front with the passage of time. New tools and products have been released by companies frequently that provide better protection and promise a more secure life. The good thing is that today even the average home-owner has access to complete [...]

There are many ways to make your home secure, to keep it free from burglaries and break-ins. But if you think it over, all of them aim to achieve the exact same thing. That is to make your residence an uninviting target for the burglar. By employing the various home security methods, whether it’s basic [...]

AlarmForce wants to help you protect your entire house. We want to put you at ease and figure out ways to best secure your premises.
Most customers have raised the question “How Many Sensors Does AlarmForce Put in My House?”.
AlarmForce offers you the ability to tailor the system to your needs, whether it is to protect [...]

Browsing through the Internet I came across some statistics for Burglaries in Canada. While the statistics are a bit old, it does give us a grim picture. As per the statistic below, Canada improved its relative grade from a “C” in the 1990s to a “B” in the 2000s.

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Phone Lines are an easy target for Burglars. They are well aware of the fact that cutting a phone line will not allow signals to be sent to the home security office or to the police. The owner or a neighbour has to specifically call the authorities in case of such break–ins.
Phone lines can be [...]

For most of us home burglaries are someone else’s problem until suddenly one day we suffer it ourselves. We know that it happens to other people and when it happens it can cause serious damages, financial, physical and psychological. Yet we are not serious about our security and care the least about getting protected beforehand. [...]