• Encouraging or requiring alarm central stations' response to attempt to verify alarms by telephone or by other electronic means before calling the law enforcement
• Moving alarm industry towards self-regulation by suspending services to chronic abusers of alarm systems
• Supporting alarm systems user education
• Utilizing supplementary or alternative response (leaving initial alarm response to private, contract responders or to municipal employees other than commissioned officers/deputies
• Encouraging the passage of alarm ordinances that provide for, among other things, user permits and fines for excessive numbers of false alarms
• Supporting security industry technology research and equipment standards
• Supporting cooperative efforts to reduce the administrative burden to local government through efficient permitting, licensing and centralized managing of the false alarm data and fee collection process
• Accepting dispatch cancellations
• Supporting dispatch cancellations
• Supporting licensing of alarm companies
• Supporting consumer ratings of alarm companies and systems based on dependability

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Sheriffs' Association urges all State Sheriff's Association/Sheriff's Departments/Office of Sheriff to participate in this program to reduce the number of false alarms on a nationwide basis.

Adopted at a general membership
Meeting on the 14th day of June, 1995
In San Antonio, Texas