CCTV footage at a house in Northcliff, Johannesburg. Passive infra-red sensors (“beams”) on the property triggered the alarms and notified the residents and Beagle Watch Armed Response.
The residents also used their panic buttons to summon Beagle Watch .
The intruder initially tries to lift the gate off its rails but is prevented from doing so by the anti-lift brackets installed on the gate.
He then tries to climb over the palisade fence but is prevented from doing so by the security (electric) fence mounted on top of the palisade fence (if you look carefully you can see the spark as he touches the the electric fence).
The next part of the video is probably the most remarkable: the intruder climbs up the front of the house onto the roof. Notice the agility with which he scales the front of the building. Once on the roof, he is unable to exit the premises at the back of the house, so he climbs back DOWN the front wall of the house.
The intruder then tries to escape the property by forcing the gate motor open (Beagle Watch response vehicles are less than a minute away from the front gate at this stage of the drama). The intruder fails to open the motor due to the anti-theft brackets in place on the motor.
As he runs away from the gate, you can see security lighting triggered by motion detection switching on.
About 30 seconds later the Beagle Watch Armed Response team storms the gate in pursuit of the intruder. Note how the response team was able to gain access to the premises via a unique PIN code on a keypad at the gate.
Whilst being chased by Beagle Watch Armed Response the intruder had fled into an adjoining private property (over a steel security palisade fence).
Footage courtesy of a Beagle Watch client in Northcliff:
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