At that point Paul lived in Leeds and was married to Carolyn Murphy. Their son Chris Murphy who was born in April of 1982 became a part of the company at a young age and had an alarm system on his bedroom at just 6 years old In 1996 the family moved to Cornwall for the better quality of life that the south west brings to anybody. Unlike other companies that try and buy their way to sucess, we started in Cornwall with just one customer and then two and then so on. Through the word of mouth that is so valuable locally and minimal advertising, we managed to not only grow to be one of the largest alarm companies in the south west, but more importantly we did this without buying any other companies or using any hard sales tactics. Over 20 years we grew to be the most popular alarm installer in Cornwall and the demand for us to travel further afield this lead onto us employing more engineers further north so that we could meet the demand and ensure we could cover the whole of Cornwall and West Devon area sufficiently. The period betweeen 2005 and 2011 was very testing for Alarm Guard as Carolyn Murphy (the Mum of the business) developed ovarian cancer and ended up losing that battle in 2011. Paul Murphy (the Father of the business) retired very shortly after, handing the company over to the current owner his son Chris Murphy.
