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Article: Success stories in reducing false alarms: several security companies stand as industry examples in reducing false alarm dispatches through their implementation of the many resources available to the industry.
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- Security Distributing & Marketing
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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The need to reduce false alarms has taken on greater urgency now that some municipalities have threatened to no longer respond to alarms or to do so only under certain conditions. The good news is that the alarm industry has pulled together in numerous ways to improve the situation--and the success of those efforts has been clearly demonstrated.
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A UNITED VOICE
A prime example of industry cooperation is the recent creation of the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC). Created through the efforts of key industry associations, SIAC's role is to be "the one voice for the entire alarm industry on false alarm management ...