Mr. Mark Dennehy:

We have discussed the secure accommodation regulations, but it has not yet been mentioned that these are the minimum requirements. Therefore, when the crime prevention officer comes to a person's house and inspects it, he is completely free in his recommendations to the superintendent to ask for more security than the statutory instrument calls for. This has happened and has been upheld by the Supreme Court. Basically, it is law. If the superintendent wants a person to have a higher level of security, he is entitled to ask for that on a case-by-case basis. If, for example, he believes a person needs a monitored alarm because of the area the owner lives in, although it is a class of arm that does not require this by law, he can ask for that. There is no public safety issue in this regard, because the law has considered the issue fully.