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Article: Police plagued by false alarms
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2006
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After responding to more than 30,000 false alarms annually for at
least the last five years, county police are cracking down on the
worst offenders.
While more than 95 percent of all alarms in 2005 turned out to be
false, the county has been focusing on education rather than
punishment until now, said Sgt. Shawn Urbas, police spokesman.
As a result, false alarm offenders have been getting off pretty
easy. Police wrote only four tickets in 2005, down from 11 in 2004
and 17 in 2003.
At the same time, police have been responding to an average of
more than 80 false alarms a day. In 2005 they responded to 30,746
false alarms, after 30,829 in 2004. That's down from 2003, though,
when police ...