Did you know that 98% of all alarm activations turn out to be false alarms? It is up to you, the alarm user to do your part to eliminate these false alarms. Being proactive and managing your system properly will help reduce these false alarms and save you valuable money in false alarm fines.
Being an owner or operator of an alarm system, brings upon certain responsibilities. The same is true if you are an employee of a company where a security system is used. Activations of these systems require public safety to respond. With this being said, alarms should be completely reliable and should only request police and fire to dispatch in the event of an actual emergency.
It is imperative that you ensure all guests, renters, workers, contractors and hired help are trained properly and given an authorized code and password in order to utilize the system. It is important to never leave your home unaccompanied with these guests in and out of your home or business unless they are given authorized information.
Always check with your alarm monitoring company to make sure that they call the alarm site location and another phone number before dispatching the public safety authorities on alarm activation. This technique has proven effective in avoiding false alarms.
Everyone benefits from false alarm reduction. Be the solution.
