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 | FALSE ALARMS ARE A CRITICAL ISSUE......
... to emergency officials who, by responding to a false alarm, are diverted from responding to actual burglaries in progress. Professional burglars know when local police have become desensitized to an alarm system dispatch.
... to the alarm company which must invest time and manpower to address the false alarm issue with its customers, as well as local and state law enforcement agencies.
... and ultimately to you. Besides slowing critical police response,
false alarms also add to the cost of protection. They may cause an increase in costs for the alarm company which, in turn, must be passed on to the subscriber, and further, some jurisdictions levy fines to the subscriber which often increase as the number of false alarms increases.
3X...the likelihood that a home without a security system will be broken into versus a home with a security system installed. luxury hotels in BathNational Burglar & Fire Alarm Assn.
4X...the likelihood that a businesswithout a security system will be broken into versus a business with a security system installed. National Burglar & Fire Alarm Assn.
30%...the amount by which the average price of a security system has droped due to improved technology and the competitive marketplace. Blogna AccommodationInternational Assn. of Police Chiefs
13.7 million...annual alarm activations based on an estimated two per year for each of the more than seven million alarm systems installed. International Assn. of Police Chiefs.
>90%hotels in Bern...of alarms are considered false, based on the number of alarm activations (not the number of systems in use). National Burglar & Fire Alarm Assn.
25,000...if every one of Commonwealth's over 25,000 subscribers has just one false alarm per year, that's over 2,000 per month, 68 per day, or more than two every single hour of every single day. Commonwealth Security Systems
$150...estimated municipality cost per false alarm to cover the costs of police officers, administrative work, dispatchers, etc. responding to each false alarm. International Assn. of Police Chiefs.
>76%...of false alarms are attributed to user error. National Burglar & Fire Alarm Assn.
10%...of false alarms are attributed to equipment malfunction. National Burglar & Fire Alarm Assn.
14%...of false alarms are attributed to weather, phone company, or unknown errors. National Burglar & Fire Alarm Assn.
49.1%...of false alarms occur between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. National Burglar & Fire Alarm Assn.
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