False Alarm Management News & Articles

By Joel Griffin SecurityInfoWatch.comWhile efforts by the alarm industry and law enforcement community have helped reduce false alarm dispatches dramatically over the past decade, innovations in surveillance ...

By Tim DeesMost law enforcement agencies list responding to alarms among their most common calls for service. Most of these are false alarms that waste resources, and absent a penalty, the alarm system ...

“This is a test of the THOR Broadcasting System. In the event of an actual weather emergency, safety instructions for Beaver Stadium and Bryce Jordan Center patrons would follow. I repeat, this is only a test.” Sounds like a standard test message, possibly broadcast as part of routine maintenance at the nation’s largest stadium. Except that this test used the THOR-8L, a new long-range directed acoustic device developed at Penn State University. And it was heard, clearly and distinctly, in a restroom located three-quarters of a mileaway. ...

New research, conducted in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, has found that this increased risk is transmitted to neighboring properties as well. Using funding from the Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice to build on this research,Jerry Ratcliffe, professor of criminal justice at Temple University, used this new knowledge to develop the Near Repeat Calculator, a free software package available for download from www.temple.edu/cj/misc/nr/. ...

By Linda B. Blackford HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER If you have an alarm system in your home or business, get ready. On Sunday, Lexington police start a new program to cut down on the number of false alarms. ...

The Associated Press ATLANTA- When a gunman opened fire at the county courthouse in March, a deputy followed a new policy and tried four times to verify a distress call before sending help, The Atlanta ...