Suppose your central station receives a panic alarm from one of its customers in an American city and contacts the police department to respond, but the department has no response procedure for panic alarms – only fire or burglary alarms.
That situation could occur if the term for panic alarm is not defined so police departments understand it. That is the job of the standards committee of the Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) that is reviewing the CSAA’s GOT 1 (glossary of terms).