Amthal’s Alarm Receiving Centre, East Midlands Central Station (EMCS), is ECHO-connected, further strengthening its proactive capabilities in alarm monitoring and response. The Electronic Call Handling Operations Ltd (ECHO) initiative was set up by the National Police Chiefs’ Council to meet the needs of policing and alarm industry response to security systems.
It’s a fully automated electronic alarm transmission service between alarm receiving centres (ARCs) and the police. When ARCs identify and verify an alarm from a monitored installation the alarm signal can be transferred to the police control room in an instant.
