False alarms
Last week I was asked to address the local Chamber of Commerce regarding false alarms. Here's a brief article on the event.
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What I would like to know is if I am alone in believing that if the alarm company were to be fined we would have a greater control over the amount of false alarms? My belief is, as stated in the interview, that we have the ultimate control over those who are not educated on how their alarm functions, as well as those who have faulty systems, or are just chronic abusers. How many fines would we need to get hit with before we say goodbye to those who abuse their systems? Are we really hooked on that RMR so badly that we will let the customer go wild? How many fines would we need to be hit with before we make sure everything is properly installed, and the customer knows exactly how it works? Fining the customer is a ridiculous solution that many cities employ. Our greatest detractors (the police) would become our biggest advocates if we could lower the current false alarm rate of 90+% to less than
50%. At the rate we are going now the police will soon adopt no response policies so we can't really ignore this. In the end we would garner more business, and have less headaches. I'd welcome your opinions.
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Posted 5 years ago by Everywhere Man in CCTV, Alarms and other Physical Security
