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A house alarm just started going off in our street 5-10 minutes ago.
After a couple of minutes of it blaring away, I thought I'd do the good neighboury thing and call the police non-emergency line to report it.
Police switchboard person asked me if I'd seen anyone breaking in, running away, broken glass or anything - which I hadn't, because I hadn't moved from my PC chair.
She goes on to tell me that they won't bother sending anyone to check it out if there's been no witnessing of an actual crime in progress, that even if there was a crime in progress the police couldn't turn the alarm off, and that most house alarms switch themselves off after about 20 minutes.
Apparently if it keeps going off continuously for a few days the environmental health people can get involved.