ECHO

ECHO celebrates 200,000 URN Milestone

ECHO is now supporting almost 200,000 Intruder and Hold-Up Alarm systems on police response with URNs (Unique Reference Numbers).  Launched last year, following extensive development, ECHO provides virtually instant alarm signalling to police control rooms from approved Alarm Receiving Centres (ARCs) who remotely monitor premises protected by Intruder and Hold-Up alarm systems. Transforming the speed […]

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Banham Security becomes first UK ARC to be ECHO-connected for police response

Banham Security and ECHO (Electronic Call Handling Operations Ltd) have announced Banham Security as their launch customer – the first UK Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) to be ECHO-connected, fast tracking alarm signal to the Police. By switching from traditional telephone communication between individual ARCs and Police Control Rooms, to an ECHO-connected process, police response times

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Essex Police and Metropolitan Police issue ECHO-connected alarm notice

ECHO (Electronic Call Handling Operations Ltd), has announced that Essex Police and the Metropolitan Police jointly issued notice to their registered Alarm Receiving Centres (ARCs) to be ECHO-connected by 1st October 2021. Following recent successful ‘end to end’ testing of ECHO’s new automated alarm signalling transmission service, the two police forces are now accepting Intruder

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Successful Echo test for the Met Police

London’s Metropolitan Police Service has successfully completed its first ‘end-to-end’ test receiving alarm signals via the new Echo hub. The test signals, originating from Banham Security’s Alarm Receiving Centre, were successfully transmitted into The Met’s own Control Room. This success follows the test by Essex Police which in November 2020 was the first police force

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BSIA Chief joins ECHO board

Mike Reddington, Chief Executive of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), has been appointed to the ECHO (Electronic Call Handling Operations) Board of Directors with immediate effect. Reddington’s appointment is a result of Dave Wilkinson stepping down in December 2020 to focus on key activities in his ongoing role of Director of Technical Services at

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Successful end to end testing of ECHO automated alarm signalling

ECHO (Electronic Call Handling Operations Ltd) has completed the first ‘end-to-end’ testing of its new automated alarm signalling transmissions between an Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) and the Essex Police Control Room. Over recent months ECHO, with support from network providers BT Redcare and CSL, has set up resilient connectivity to handle alarm signals from approved

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