Re: Police Monitoring Alarm Accounts.....

["Doug" <not@xxxxxxxx>]

I know that Newport Beach, CA has long had a monitoring station, they freely
admit that their service is very limited to the number of zones they can
monitor and they don't aggressively market their service, nor do they claim
that they will respond quicker to a "in-house" signal than to a private
monitoring service. I should note that its been several years since I have
had any contact with the NBPD so their policies and equipment capabilities
may have changed.
http://www.nbpd.org/insidenbpd/services/alarms.asp

I believe that several other cities in Southern California used to or still
monitor alarms directly, there are probably numerous PD's in the US that
monitor alarms. The central station associations will probably be able to
provide a list.

A quick google found the three listed below in California

Millbrae, CA
http://www.ci.millbrae.ca.us/police/alarm-monitoring.html

Hillsborough,CA
http://www.hillsborough.net/depts/finance/business/alarm_monitoring.asp

Atherton, CA. This one is interesting.
http://www.ci.atherton.ca.us/police/faqs.html


The City of Livermore, CA at one time introduced an ordinance that required
fire alarms within the City to be monitored by a UL listed central station
within the City limits, unfortunately the only such facility was the city
owned Livermore Communications Center. This was resolved after three Alarm
Associations took action.
http://www.csaaul.org/CAALivermoreSettlement.rtf

Doug

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"Norm Mugford" <1alarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of a Police Department (City, County or State),
> that has it's own monitoring station and charges for monitoring alarm
> accounts.
> If you know of any, let me know.
> (A small 6000 city Police Department in Florida has an agenda to open
> a UL monitoring station, with the approval of the City Council).
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Norm Mugford
>
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