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Article: Should police respond to alarms? Police response to private burglar alarms isn't the best use of public law enforcement resources, which are already stretched thin.(United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration on burglar protection)
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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In response to the high rate of false burglar alarms at homes and businesses, law enforcement agencies around the country are adopting a policy commonly referred to as verified response. It means that criminal activity must be identified by either private security officers or through some type of electronic surveillance before police will dispatch personnel to the scene of an alarm. Since the vast majority of security systems cannot verify criminal incidents electronically, private security will generally be the source of the verification.
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