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De-bunking some of the common myths around home security - infographic from Dyno-Locks   We recently found this home security infographic created by Dyno-Locks - a security company and locksmiths...

The level of security required could be relative to your street A question that we often get asked is “how much security do I need to protect my home?”. Obviously...

Win a pair of tickets to the Ossett Beercart Festival As event sponsors we have 2 pairs of tickets to the Ossett Beercart festival on the 1st and 2nd June...

Summer hot weather can make your home vulnerable to sneak-in burglars Far be it from us to put a dampener on the cracking weather we’ve had over the last few...

We’ve been at our premises on Roundwood Industrial Estate near Ossett for almost 2 years now. We like to think that the surrounding businesses benefit from us being here due...

Thanks to our new state-of-the-art key cutting equipment We have always offered key cutting at our security shop but occasionally we would get a more specialist key that would have...

You are probably sharing way more than you realise We have already covered the issue of social media several times on the blog and how sharing information about when you’re...

17,000 minors arrested for burglary in the last 3 years According to new research, 1 in 6 burglary suspects are under the age of 18 in the UK. More than...

Local beer festival returns for 5th year Calder Security is pleased to be supporting the Ossett Beercart festival again this year. This is the 5th year of the Beercart and...

Vaseline, conkers and other novel ways to keep the critters away from your CCTV! If you have a CCTV system, chances are you will be familiar with the issue of...

A monitored intruder alarm is essentially an audible intruder alarm with ‘monitoring’ added as an additional service. An audible alarm is as it sounds; an alarm that makes an audible...

This is one of our engineers. We know him as Andy but he’s also known by other names, according to our customers. Mrs Wildey from Wakefield calls him a “ray...