One of the biggest problems busy working families in the West Midlands face today is keeping our homes safe.

As you’ve probably seen we’re all working more and more. Working to provide the best we can for the people that matter most to us. And yet as we’re out this leaves our home, and everything precious it contains, our possessions and our memories, vulnerable and exposed.

Maybe you’ve read the stats -

Our homes are now 5 times more likely to be burgled if we don’t have a security system.​

Now I don't know about you, but I suspect like most people you know a friend or family member who’s experienced their home being broken into. It’s one of life’s most painful experience.

A home invasion is utterly devastating.

Not only do people lose their material possessions they’ve worked so hard to provide - cars, computers, children's toys and so on. But even worse is when they have their memories stolen, those irreplaceable items of jewellery that no amount of money money can buy. Or maybe a precious photography or trinket gets smashed as intruders ransack your home.

And after getting home to find your your family’s possessions and memories gone you now have to spend endless time sorting it all out.

Hours spent on the phone to talk to insurance companies, to talk to banks to change all their passwords, to talk to internet companies and change all their passwords….this list goes on and on.

But the worst of it all is that feeling that your home is just not safe anymore. That feeling that someone has been in your home without your knowledge.

That feeling of never truly being at peace in the one place you should - your home.

And it's not your fault...

As you have probably read in the press, the cold, harsh realities of the government cut backs over the last decade are truly setting in, and local authority & police budgets are at breaking point…

Our beloved police force are stretched to the maximum so police resources are thinner than ever, meaning response times are longer now more than ever! ​

Our overworked police are busy tallying up break-in after break-in for homes with no security system and all they have the resources to do it tick boxes to help insurance claims. No time or money for real ‘police work’.

And with Brexit looming, the possibility of another migrant crisis about to hit the headlines, and even more cuts, it’s only going to get hard and harder for police to do their job.

Which just goes to show…