70% on their dispatch requests to law enforcement.
The alarm industry estimates that an average of 85% of the alarm dealers have voluntarily complied with verification. However, in an effort to reach total compliance verification should be mandated by an alarm ordinance.
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7. NOTIFICATION TO USER OF DISPATCH:
Definition:The act of law enforcement notifying alarm users of every alarm dispatch.
COMMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS:
Most users are willing to take corrective action, but are unaware of the impact of false dispatches on law enforcement.
Timely notification of each alarm dispatch, (even when there is no fee) is helpful in alerting users to the problem and eventual consequences of continued false dispatches.
Notification increases the likelihood of early corrective action.
Notification on all responses also serves as a backup to the efforts that the Alarm Company is making to reduce false dispatches.
When the notification comes from law enforcement the alarm user is more likely to take corrective action than if it comes from only their alarm company.
Consistent notification of all alarm responses to users should normally result in lowering false dispatches immediately.
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