On Sun, 30 May 2004 23:44:48 +0100, Janet Baraclough.. wrote:

You're speaking of urban circumstances. In rural Scotland, the
police decline "neighbourhood watch" status to very thinly populated
areas.

Asking with the wrong words? Do they do "Farm Watch", but being
Scotland things could be very different...

My friend's house (and the Akita house) are both, at insurers'
insistance after repeated attacks, professionally alarmed to the
hilt.

And monitored? No point in having all the flashing lights and bells if
there is no one about to report it... Of course if it takes the
"local" police force an hour to get to the place after the monitoring
station has reported a confirmed intruder, the scroates will have long
gone by the time the police get there.

They still get hit.

I guess these places are around a 90 min drive from an urban/city
area. Most of the burgularies up here are commited by scroats driving
in from urban/city areas.

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