1. Register with your municipal police.
Most police departments have a voluntary registration, this may have an annual fee attached to it but it will offer a lower response fee, some give the first response free.
Regional Police Departments are now requiring home owners and business to register their property with an annual fee so they can provide alarm response.
Police departments across the country have increasingly been prioritizing response to alarm systems dispatches due to the high percentage of false alarms generated by alarm security systems. However, most false alarms are caused by user error and in some cases improper installation of detection devices by alarm system installers that are not properly trained. As a result, most regional police forces have implemented expensive false alarm programs that impose expensive fines while lowering their response priority for alarm system dispatches and in some cases, they are not responding at all!
This lower priority means it may take police to respond beyond and acceptable timeframe and could potentially lead to a tragic situation in the event of an actual emergency. However, the police will respond much more quickly if they have a verified break-in or emergency.
1. Register with your municipal police.
Most police departments have a voluntary registration, this may have an annual fee attached to it but it will offer a lower response fee, some give the first response free.
2. private guard company.
Some guard companies offer an annual fee or a monthly discounted fee for a predetermined amount of dispatches.
The private guard dispatch is usually faster then police and they do have the authority to arrest a client
3. Authorized Call List
Have our station call the complete call list to authorize the dispatch.
Chances are that one of the contacts will be aware of any false alarms due to recent activity at the location and cancel the alarms dispatch.
4. Cancel Code
Have us program a cancel code in the alarm system. This will notify our station that you have disarmed the system and the alarm should not be dispatched. Our station may still contact you to verify the cause of the alarm.
5. Cross zone or double hit Zones
Cross zone or double hit programming, some alarm systems allow you to use this technology to verify alarms.
If two different areas of protection send a signal within a certain time, our station will consider this a true alarm and dispatch. If only one of the two areas trip without the second going into alarm, our station will only use the call list to report the alarm without a dispatch. .
6. Video verification,
Palladium can install an web enabled camera in the protected area.
In the case of an alarm, our station can remotely look at the live video feed and decide if a response is required. .
