In 2017 COPS Monitoring integrated its Maryland central station onto its network. With the addition of the Maryland location, COPS reported, it operates the largest network of hot-redundant and load-sharing wholesale monitoring centers in the industry.
“Some may believe that six central stations is overkill,” said Jim McMullen, president and COO of COPS Monitoring. “We don’t think so. Even a short period of downtime in our industry can be catastrophic, which is why we focus on ‘failsafe’ monitoring above ‘disaster recovery.’ While the safeguards that are required by our industry’s governing agencies create a good minimum standard for single-site central stations to follow, we felt that they do not fully address the total loss of a facility.”