Basically I am a mobile security officer for a major security firm, we have a contract with a company which provides securtiy for vacant properties from single garages to big office blocks, but mainly vacant pubs and houses.
when the owners of the properties want there premises secured the company we are contracted by attend and fit sitex metal sheeting over the windows and doors, they fit one steel access door with 2 locks and a battery powered alarm system , a pir wireless detector in each room etc, the alarms are intelligent they automatically dial our PDAs and tell us the exact detectors that have activated so a pretty good system.

basically last week I had multible activations at a house, i got there and the squatters immediatly shouted some crap about "under section 6 of the law we are usingt these premises as a squat" and some ofther shite, basically police said there is nothing they or we could do as they did not cause no damage gaining entry, but had removed all the alarm detectors and put them somewhere safe. o i haed to leave them inside.


then thursday night i got called to another house, we were not 100% wether anyone was in there or not so i crept to the door and very quietly unlocked it so i did not disturb any potential intuders/squatters, they had slid the shackle lock across the inside so i forcefully yanked the door open and got my feet through the door so i was within the threshold, then 3 squatters appeared, i basically told them as i was over the threshold and they had not made me aware they were inside that i had right to just enter as i would under a bormal false alarm activation wether they had locked door inside or not. to cut a long story short i was a right cunt to them and got all 3 out.

the thing is i know that if they damage anything whilst gainign entry then they can be removed and arrested for criminal damage and if i can get my foot over threshold they have to give up and leave, those are the facts i work from but does anyone know any other loop holes i can use when this happens in the future. I would have thought them entering a premises with an electronic security system would be illegal as the premises was not left insecure.

sorry if thats a bit long winded but i need to get some facts and loopholes which wont see me getting in the shit with the law, i would happily rip door down and drag them out but cant wiithout a court order.

I had a similar one last april when app 150 protestors turned up and tried making us stop but that time they bent the sitex shuttering and broke the window inside so police had them for criminal damage, it made it on to the news and the squatters own web site

this was there headline, http://bristol.indymedia.org.uk/arti...=MISCELLANEOUS (read the comment links at the bottom, quite amusing) but was later proven we were not illegaly evicting as they were being arrested for breaking and entering and criminal damafge