Mercury targetingcountryside crime

Mercury Security Management Ltd, believes that it has developed a solution that it claims will protect even the most rural of areas, delivering a faster police response to catch lawbreakers in the act and prevent loss or damage to property and animals.

Mercury Eye, a security camera operates wirelessly in all types of weather and that doubles up as an alarm to detect intruders and, once triggered, transmit a live visual feed to Mercury’s award-winning monitoring centre.

The camera does not require electricity or broadband so can be utilised in the most remote areas.

Once an intruder is detected and visually verified by the Monitoring Centre, the police are informed immediately, enabling them to send a patrol out quickly to the property and make arrests if the intruders have not already been scared off by a verbal warning via an in-built speaker system or a number of audio warnings, sirens or flashing lights.

A residential version known as Home Watch is also available which protects homes and transmits a live visual feed to the resident’s smart phone or to Mercury’s monitoring centre.

Mercury Security director Liam Cullen, said “Farms and rural communities across Northern Ireland are feeling increasingly vulnerable as organised crime gangs set their sights on valuable machinery, tools and livestock worth millions of pounds.

“It’s no surprise to hear that rural theft cost the local farming community almost £4 million last year. Livestock, tractors, trailers, horse boxes, valuable machinery and tools are often left in unsecured or remote locations so it is important that these assets are properly monitored and protected.

“Our Mercury Eye and Home Watch cameras will detect intruders, visually record them and transmit live moving images in real time to enable our monitoring staff, farmers themselves and the police to act quickly to protect the property and catch the criminals in the act or scare them off,” he added. NFU figures reveal 15% increase in rural crime at a cost of £3.9M .economy.