Criteria for Participation - con’t
Police and community officials were asked to:
- Accept at police or 911 dispatch centers only those requests, which involve a stated attempted verification by the alarm company excluding panic or hold-up type alarms.
- Implement a locally-predetermined procedure to restrict or suspend police response to chronic abusers of alarm systems, and implement procedures which allow resumption of police response after the imposed period of suspension and/or corrective action has been taken.
- Implement procedures to accept verified cancellation of dispatch requests from alarm companies.
- For chronic abusers, support user training by the alarm company and annual inspections of alarm systems.
- Support efforts to establish or strengthen statewide licensing of alarm companies and employees.
- Use the NBFAA Model Alarm Ordinance as a framework to develop steps to combat this problem in concert with local representatives of the alarm industry.
- Use a standardized data collection method.
- Commit to sharing all collected false alarm data with the industry.
- Help influence dealer participation by directly requesting their presence at joint meetings. (Meeting notice signed by the Chief)
- Help influence end-user participation or action as needed through letters, meetings, visits, etc.
- If alternative response was utilized, appropriate standards will be adopted for non- sworn responders.
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