Re: False alarms

["petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx>]

My opinion is plain simple,you have some really good nerv to come here and
talk about giving fine to installing alarm company.

What you dont know is that,here we have so much fly by night company that
there is no way just to know who the heck installed a system..

You will need to think also about poeple that badly use there alarm,not
because they ar mean,but cause the forget,they didnt close the windows of
the kitchen and at the first good wind gust the pir gave an alarm,now wheres
the alarm company fault,how could they have prevented that alarm? by
installing contact on every door?

i f so you are saying that alarm system should only be install on high end
home where they can afford full perimeter and volumetric protection

and what about the business side of the story,commercial account where the
cleaning team change every damn month and they cant read english..have
difficulty just to speak english,and plain just dont care about alarms..

what can i do about that? ask my customer to pay me back the fine? they
first thing that will happen ,they will go to fly by nights connected to
central station in another juridiction,and voila..case closed,where do you
will send the fine?

the only way to fix the false alarm issue is to have a way of confirming if
an alarm is real or not,and that is video confirmation,let have the
integration of video system to alarm system as a big incentive for sale to
the alarm manufacturer you dont need high end camera and crystal clear video
to realise if there is a break in or not...or if the Johnson forgot to put
the cat in the basement before leaving for the day..




"Everywhere Man" <alarminstall@xxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
1144702426.272614.144170@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Last week I was asked to address the local Chamber of Commerce
> regarding false alarms.
> Here's a brief article on the event.
>
> http://www.mvinquirer.com/chamber_meeting_of_april_6.htm
>
> What I would like to know is if I am alone in believing that if the
> alarm company were to be fined we would have a greater control over the
> amount of false alarms?
> My belief is, as stated in the interview, that we have the ultimate
> control over those who are not educated on how their alarm functions,
> as well as those who have faulty systems, or are just chronic abusers.
> How many fines would we need to get hit with before we say goodbye to
> those who abuse their systems? Are we really hooked on that RMR so
> badly that we will let the customer go wild?
> How many fines would we need to be hit with before we make sure
> everything is properly installed, and the customer knows exactly how it
> works?
> Fining the customer is a ridiculous solution that many cities employ.
> Our greatest detractors (the police) would become our biggest advocates
> if we could lower the current false alarm rate of 90+% to less than
> 50%. At the rate we are going now the police will soon adopt no
> response policies so we can't really ignore this.
> In the end we would garner more business, and have less headaches.
> I'd welcome your opinions.
>