Having a monitored home security system is as close to having a personal security staff that most people will ever have unless they are a part of the Hollywood crowd. While the rich and famous have personal security to watch over them, their families and their homes in case of break-ins or emergencies.

The average homeowner cannot afford this type of service but they can have the same type of protection for their home and their property. When a family has an monitored home security system installed in their home they have the protection that a personal security staff could give them and more.

This home security system protects against home break-ins and there is equipment that can be installed for medical emergencies and this is the type of thing that a personal security staff could do.

Where it differs and where the home security system can give more protection than the personal security staff is with equipment that can alert the family in the case of a carbon monoxide leak, a water leak and monitoring for smoke or fire. These are things that would be hard for a human that works as a personal security person to detect carbon monoxide or a leak unless the leak has gotten bad enough that it is doing damage. The personal security staff may notice smoke or fire but by the time they would notice this the home security system would have already sent an alert to the monitoring center. Where the professional staff would have summoned the proper authorities and they would be on their way to the home that has sent an alert to the monitoring center.

Another difference is that some days during the week the personal security staff might take off a day each week, leaving the family they are protecting alone and without protection.

This is not the case with a personal home security system as this is something that can run twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year. The home security system has no days off and this is total protection.

It is also a much cheaper way to protect a family because while not rich and famous have the means to hire a personal security staff nor would they want these protective personnel roaming about their home in order to guard over the home.