Legacy Security

Legacy Security: security system installation in Welshpool

Legacy Security works from 34 Welshpool Road, Welshpool, in the industrial corridor between Victoria Park and Cannington, close to Kewdale, Queens Park, Carlisle and the Perth Airport freight precinct.

Licensing comes first on security work

Private security activity in Western Australia is governed by the Security and Related Activities (Control) Act 1996 and its 1997 regulations, and is licensed by WA Police Force Licensing Services rather than a trade body. A security installer licence is what authorises someone to install, maintain and repair the equipment the Act controls, and it is divided into classes: alarms and CCTV sit in Class 2, safes, vaults and locks in Class 1, and security doors in Class 3. Ask which class the installer holds before the quote, not after the job.

Questions worth asking

• Who owns the hardware at the end of a monitoring contract? Some packages are a bundled lease and the panel stays with the provider. Have it written down.
• Ask about camera placement, not camera megapixels. A well-sited camera at head height on an approach path identifies a person; a high-resolution one on a gable end photographs the top of a cap.
• Confirm what happens when an alarm trips and who is called in what order, then test it once the system is live.
• Ask for the system documentation and your own admin credentials. You should not need the installer to add a user.

Legacy Security is listed under Security System Installers and serving Welshpool, Western Australia. Address: 34 Welshpool Rd, Welshpool WA 6106, Australia.