A company’s alarm monitoring service quickly notifies the
appropriate emergency personnel when a burglar alarm or fire alarm sounds in a Tulsa or Oklahoma City
business. With the Tulsa and OKC alarm monitoring service
from MacNet, alarm signals are received by the central alarm monitoring
station in just a couple seconds. But what happens when these alarm signals are
false alarms?
As with real alarm signals, firefighters or police officers are still sent out when they get the call from the burglar or fire alarm monitoring service, unless they are notified in time that it was a false alarm.
In a recent article about how taxpayers are affected by false alarms,
a sheriff’s department in Georgia noted that a deputy spends half an
hour responding to each false alarm, and at that department one out of
every ten 9-1-1 calls was a false alarm. Averaging that amount of time
with what a deputy just starts out making will cost taxpayers around
$97,000 dollars a year, the Sergeant calculated.
In Tulsa, a couple of
police officers are sent out when a Tulsa burglar alarm sounds.
“Officers are trained to never let their guard down on an alarm call,” Fox23 News
reported. “Since they are priority calls, two officers are sent which
means time and money.” To combat the number of false alarms, the Tulsa
Police Department will only dispatch officers to a home if the residents
have registered their security system with the department. All security
systems need to be registered with the City of Tulsa. “Police say if
you have three false alarms in one year, your permit is suspended and
your alarm company must inspect it to make sure it is working properly,”
Fox23 added.
Oklahoma City also has an ordinance to fine those
with “excessive” false alarms, considered more than three false alarms
within a 365-day period.
So how can you stop these costly false alarms?
First,
if your Tulsa or OKC burglar alarm or fire alarm does go off
improperly, it’s important to call your alarm monitoring company
immediately.
To make sure the fire or burglar alarm is up-to-date
and working properly, regular inspections and maintenance is vital and
can subsequently reduce the number of false alarms. Updating an older
alarm system can also help to prevent unnecessary alarms.
Train all employees on how to correctly operate and cancel an accidental alarm.
Mac Systems in Tulsa and OKC can make sure your fire alarm and security system are up-to-date and working properly so that you won’t have to pay for costly false alarms.
What Is The Cost Of False Alarms?
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