Keys Gate Residents: Activate AT&T Protection One System!

Here we go again!  There's a robbery in Keys Gate?  Oh My!   Let's call CBS4 because of course this is a tragedy worthy of Local News at 6 and 11PM.  Must've been a slow news night for the TV station to trek down to Keys Gate and report on a house being "ransacked".   If this had happened in Southwest Homestead, well, that's not news.   House watchers, Mr. and Mrs. Gunther and Shirley Karger left the doors and windows unlocked on a neighbor's house they were "watching" while the neighbor was hospitalized. Mind you they also never activated the burglar alarm system for the house.  It is the homeowner's or house watcher's responsibility to turn on the alarm system.  

In Keys Gate the alarm system is monitored by AT&T Protection One and paid through the association.  The monitored alarm system goes off when tripped by the motion sensor or a door or window is opened.  Residents are able to add other services upon request for an additional fee.  Once tripped Protection One contacts the homeowner via telephone to the house or mobile phone.  Otherwise, shortly thereafter the company calls the Police Department. 

This will not be the first time nor the last that residents fail to turn on the system and get robbed.  Then indignant at the circumstances they yell and scream at the Keys Gate Community Association (KGCA), Homestead Police Department , CBS News 4, neighbors, you name it.  "Something must be done!" they say,   Indeed:   Activate the Alarm and chances are this would have never happened.  Don't bother going to KGCA requesting to increase alarm monitoring for glass braking and smart phone monitoring. The alarm system isn't being turned on anyway so why pay more in maintenance fees for a service that will go unused.   

The Homestead Police Department did a fine job apprehending two suspects that allegedly broke into this and other homes in the North Gate Village in Key Gate.  They do a great job after the fact but are unable to be everywhere all the time.  Homestead Police needs the residents' help:  Be vigilant and proactive, by turning on the alarm system so these robberies happen less frequently.

Reference Link:

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/06/10/homestead-police-make-arrest-in-rash-of-neighborhood-burglaries/