Non-Sworn Alarm Responder Guidelines
Wednesday, April 24, 2002 by by Private Sector Liaison Committee
Presently, the PSLC is focusing its efforts on the reduction of false alarms. In developing strategies to reduce false alarms, the PSLC worked with the leadership of the alarm industry. This leadership representation has included personnel from as many as four industry organizations: the Alarm Industry Research and Education Foundation (AIREF), the National Burglar and Fire Alarm Association (NBFAA), the Security Industry Association (SIA), and the Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA). As a result of this partnership and support from the IACP Division of State Associations of Chiefs of Police (SACOP), a Model States False Alarm Reduction Program was developed.
The outcome of these efforts to date has been the publication and distribution of false alarm reduction materials, the implementation of model cities false alarm reduction effort, media initiatives, and the hands-on participation of all interested parties.
Genuine progress is being made in the reduction of false alarms throughout the United States. This is most visible in the growing awareness of the problem false dispatches
pose for both sectors. This awareness is also producing the passage of local false alarm ordinances, alarm users training programs, pre-dispatch verification initiatives by alarm monitoring companies, and dispatch cancellations by police agencies to verify false alarms.
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