Alarm response services: an SIA-licensed officer at your site, 24/7.
When your intruder or fire alarm goes off, our Hull control room sends a trained officer to check the site, secure it and report back, so your staff don't have to go out at night.
What is an alarm response service?
An alarm response service sends an SIA-licensed security officer to your premises when your intruder or fire alarm activates, so staff are not called out. SPS Security provides 24/7 alarm response from its Hull control room across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, usually with key holding from around £250 a year plus attendance charges.
- Indicative price
- Key holding from £250/year, plus per-attendance charges
- Covers
- Intruder and fire alarm activations, 24/7
- Evidence
- GPS and time-stamped arrival, written report every callout
- Licensing
- SIA-licensed officers; SIA Approved Contractor (assessed by SSAIB)
- Offices
- Hull, Grimsby and Lincoln
- Coverage
- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
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Prices are indicative planning figures, not fixed quotes. Get a site-specific quote.
What our alarm response service covers
SPS alarm response (also called security alarm response) is for businesses that do not want staff driving to their premises when an alarm activates. Our 24/7 control room receives the activation and sends an SIA-licensed officer to check, secure and report on the site.
Alarm response is usually provided with key holding, so the officer can get inside, find the cause and reset the alarm. Many clients also add mobile patrols or lock and unlock so one local provider covers the whole out-of-hours period.
Where the same detector or zone keeps causing false alarms, we flag it in the report and our sister company SPS Technical can fix the fault, so you stop paying for avoidable callouts. Get a free quote for your sites.
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Who is this service right for?
Businesses that should not send staff to alarms
Removes the lone-worker risk of staff attending activations at night.
Sites where police response is limited
Someone still checks the building when police will not attend.
Premises with automatic fire alarms
A confirmed check when the fire service will not attend an unconfirmed alarm.
Every visit includes
Every activation attended
A trained officer checks the site, rather than the alarm being ignored or a manager going alone.
Proof of attendance
GPS and time-stamped arrival and departure, plus a written report.
Fewer false alarms over time
Repeat causes are spotted and passed to SPS Technical to fix.
One local provider
Hull control room, Hull and Grimsby offices, one point of contact.
How alarm response works
From activation to report.
Sector fit
Where this service fits best
A quick view of the types of sites where a consistent on-site security presence is most valuable.
SPS Security provides 24/7 alarm response for businesses across Hull, Grimsby, East Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire and wider Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. When your intruder or fire alarm activates, our Hull control room sends an SIA-licensed officer to check and secure the site, with GPS-verified arrival and a written report. Alarm response is usually combined with key holding, from around £250 a year per site plus attendance charges.
Alarm Response Services in Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
SPS Security provides 24/7 alarm response for businesses across Hull, Grimsby, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. When your intruder or fire alarm activates, an SIA-licensed officer attends, checks and secures the site, and reports back, so you and your staff don't have to.
What happens when your alarm goes off
Your alarm sends the activation to a monitoring centre, which passes it to our 24/7 control room in Hull. We dispatch a response officer, contact your nominated keyholders if needed, and track the officer's arrival by GPS.
On site, the officer checks the outside for signs of entry, then checks inside if we hold your keys. They secure open doors and windows, call the police if there is evidence of a break-in, wait for glaziers or contractors, reset the alarm where possible and send a time-stamped report.
Intruder alarm response
Police only respond to monitored intruder alarms with a police Unique Reference Number (URN), and repeated false alarms can lead to that response being reduced or withdrawn. A security alarm response service means every activation is still checked by a trained officer, whatever the police decide.
Fire alarm response
Many fire and rescue services, including those covering our area, no longer send an engine to an unconfirmed automatic fire alarm at commercial premises, and some charge for repeat false alarms. Our officer can attend, confirm whether there is a fire and make sure the right action is taken.
Alarm response and key holding
Alarm response works best with key holding: with your keys, the officer can get inside, find the cause and reset the alarm. SPS is an SIA Approved Contractor for key holding and stores keys coded, never labelled with your address.
Alarm maintenance and monitoring through SPS Technical
Response is only as good as the alarm behind it. Our sister division SPS Technical provides intruder alarm maintenance, fire alarm servicing and 24/7 alarm monitoring, so one group maintains your system, monitors it and sends an officer when it activates.
When our officers see the same zone or detector causing repeat callouts, the report goes to SPS Technical to find and fix the fault. This reduces false alarms, protects police and fire service response and cuts attendance charges. Use the free false alarm cost calculator to see what false alarms are costing you, or read about moving alarm signalling off phone lines before the PSTN switch-off.
Choosing an alarm response company
Check that the company is SIA approved, runs its own 24/7 control room, can tell you target attendance times for your postcode and gives you proof of arrival and a report after every callout. Ask how they handle repeat false alarms; a good provider helps you get them fixed rather than just attending them.
What the service includes
- 24/7 response to intruder and fire alarm activations
- SIA-licensed response officers
- GPS and time-stamped arrival and departure
- Police liaison and waiting with contractors
- Alarm reset where possible
- Written report after every callout
- Repeat false alarms flagged and fixed through SPS Technical
- Single and multi-site cover
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Alarm response in Hull and East Yorkshire
SPS provides 24/7 alarm response to intruder and fire alarm activations at commercial and industrial premises across Hull, Beverley, Hessle, Anlaby and the wider East Yorkshire area, coordinated from our Hull head office and control room.
Alarm response in Grimsby, Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire
From our Grimsby office, SPS response officers attend alarm activations across Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham, Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire, including industrial estates, port-adjacent sites, retail parks and vacant premises.
Alarm response across wider Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Alarm response for sites in Leeds, Doncaster, Sheffield, York, Lincoln and the wider region is confirmed around each site's location and attendance requirements, coordinated through our 24/7 control room.
Alarm maintenance, monitoring and response from one group
SPS Technical installs, maintains and monitors the alarms and cameras; SPS Security officers respond when they activate. One group, one control room, fewer gaps.
Intruder alarm installation, maintenance and monitoring
Monitored intruder alarms with police-response options, routine servicing and PSTN digital upgrades.
Fire alarm installation and maintenance
Fire detection systems installed and serviced to BS 5839-1, with help to cut false alarms.
24/7 alarm and CCTV monitoring
Alarm and camera signals monitored around the clock, linked to SPS officers for response.
CCTV installation and maintenance
Commercial CCTV designed, installed and maintained, with remote monitoring through the SPS control room.
Clients We Work With
A selection of organisations SPS Security has supported across the region.
Combine services where the site needs more than one layer of support
These services sit within our Mobile Security operation and are often delivered together so clients can combine patrols, response, access support and scheduled property checks through one locally managed model.
Mobile Patrols
Visible patrol visits, deterrence and GPS-backed reporting across the region.
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