article_snippet.sent: The Secret Service took more than a year to replace a broken alarm system at the home of George H.W. Bush, The Secret Service has emerged.
article_snippet.sent: The alarm failed at the former president's Houston residence in September 2013 and even though The Secret Service bought a replacement system in January 2014, The Secret Service took until December  for The Secret Service to be installed - leaving the couple without the protection of a working alarm at the couple home for 15 months.
article_snippet.sent: Concerns: Former First Lady Barbara Bush and former President George H.W. Bush, pictured watching basketball in March, did not have a working alarm at Concerns: Former First Lady Barbara Bush and former President George H.W. Bush Houston home for more than a year .
article_snippet.sent: During the time a working alarm was out of service, the Secret Service assigned an employee to keep watch over the residence, according to a report by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, which was released on Thursday,CBS News reported.
article_snippet.sent: Despite the apparently relaxed security measures, there were no breaches at the property, where 90-year-old Bush and his wife Barbara have lived for more than two decades.
article_snippet.sent: he and his wife Houston home, circle, was guarded by a the Secret Service agent throughout the 15 months .
article_snippet.sent: The report also raises concerns about the security at other former presidents' homes, but has redacted concerns about the security at other former presidents' homes names.
article_snippet.sent: Among concerns about the security at other former presidents' homes, one official reported that safety equipment showed 'signs of impending failure'.
article_snippet.sent: With these fixes in place, we believe the Secret Service will more effectively meet the Secret Service mission to protect the lives and homes of we former presidents,' Homeland Security Inspector General John Roth, who wrote The report, said in a statement.
article_snippet.sent: A member of the Secret Service patrols outside the White House last September after a man managed to scale the fence, run across the lawn and enter the property without being stopped .
article_snippet.sent: Last year, Iraq war veteran Omar Gonzalez scaled the fence of the White House and managed to enter the residence - running right past agents, who also failed to release a dog in time.