False Alarm Perspectives

Purpose

If you are ready to put an end to the enormous problem of false alarms—to halt the unnecessary police dispatches, the waste of time and money, and the loss of alarms' deterrent value—then this document can help. The pages that follow put at your fingertips a timely compendium of information on false alarms.

Read the detailed overview of the false alarm problem, look at relevant state laws, see what local ordinances have achieved, examine pertinent court decisions, study the theory and practice of private response to alarms, and search the list of publications and organizations that may be able to help you.

This document does not lay out the ultimate answer to the false alarm problem. Instead, it brings together, th one useful package, a range of information and resources you can use to forge your own solution--one that satisfies the demands of the citizens, businesses, and public agencies in your particular city, county, or state.