Legislation and Standards HOME / ELECTRONIC SECURITY Home About Us Monitoring and Response Fire Safety Electronic Security Legislation & Standards Fire Security ACPO Policy ACPOS Policy BS8418 CCTV Monitoring CCTV Data Protection Act DD243 & Alarm Confirmation DDA Access Control Employers Liability Act PD6662/EN50131 Overview Police Force Policies & URN's Smoke-free Law The Health & Safety At Work Act Quality Certification News & Resources Contact Us Recruitment Police Response and URN Management Police services in the UK will only offer a response to confirmed alarm signals from a monitored alarm system which has been granted a Police URN (Unique Reference Number), the aim being to provide an effective response to genuine intruder and panic attack alarms. CHUBB CERTIFIED As a certified installer of intruder and panic attack alarm systems and CCTV systems in accordance with the ACPO and ACPOS (Scotland) unified policy, Chubb obtain Police URN’s for the systems installed on behalf of its customers. The unified Policy is supported by insurers. POLICE ATTENDANCE Monitored intruder and panic attack alarms All new applications will only qualify for a URN and Police response if the security system is installed to the current required standard (PD6662 /BS EN50131). CCTV Systems To enable remote detector activated CCTV systems to gain a URN for police response, systems are to be installed in compliance with BS8418, BS EN50132 and the ACPO Policy on Police Response. Termination of URN Following withdrawal of Police response, should the level of false calls delay response being reinstated for more than 6 months, the URN will be deleted and the occupier advised in writing. A new application will then be required. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ON 'THE ACPO POLICY ON POLICE RESPONSE’ CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ON 'THE ACPOS POLICY ON POLICE RESPONSE’ CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ON 'THE CHUBB KEYHOLDING SERVICE’ CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ON 'PD6662 & EN50131' CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ON 'BS8418 & CCTV MONITORING' YOUR LOCAL POLICE FORCE Click on the links below to find out how your local Police force has implemented the ACPO policy: Avon & Somerset Constabulary Bedfordshire Police Cambridgeshire Police Central Scotland Police Cheshire Constabulary City of London (see Metropolitan Police) Cleveland Police Cumbria Constabulary Derbyshire Constabulary Devon & Cornwall Constabulary Dorset Police Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary Durham Constabulary Dyfed Powys Police / Heddlu Dyfed Powys Essex Police Fife Constabulary Gloucestershire Constabulary Grampian Police Greater Manchester Police Gwent Police Police Hampshire Constabulary Hertfordshire Police Humberside Police Kent Constabulary Lancashire Police Leicestershire Constabulary Lincolnshire Police Lothian & Borders Police Merseyside Police Metropolitan Police Norfolk Constabulary Northamptonshire Police North Wales Police / Heddlu Gogledd Cymru North Yorkshire Police Northern Constabulary Northumbria Police Nottinghamshire Police Police Service of Northern Ireland South Wales Police South Yorkshire Police Staffordshire Police Strathclyde Police Suffolk Police Surrey Police Sussex Police Tayside Police Thames Valley Police Warwickshire Constabulary West Mercia Constabulary West Midlands Police West Yorkshire Police Wiltshire constabulary Privacy notice | Terms of use | Chubb is a part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. © Chubb Fire & Security Ltd. 2021