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CHeKT announced that its Visual Monitoring platform and the Optex Bridge powered by CHeKT are wholly compliant with the Sandy Springs, Ga., False Alarm Reduction Program. The Sandy Springs, Ga., ordinance has been designed to reduce the number of false alarm dispatches. Unlike other municipal ordinances, the Sandy Springs ordinance fines are imposed on the alarm companies themselves.
The Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) awarded the 2014 Police Dispatch Quality Award to Habitec Security at the Public Safety and Networking luncheon at ESX in Baltimore on June 24.
Don’t let the three wise monkeys fool you. Hearing, seeing and announcing danger is proving very useful to the industry. SDM looks at products that are helping detect and verify alarms using audio/visual technologies.
Monitronics was awarded the 2013 Annual Police Dispatch Quality (PDQ) Award from the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) and the False Alarm Reduction Association (FARA) at the Electronic Security Expo’s 2014 Icebreaker Luncheon held on June 24, 2014 at The Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Security, law enforcement, and insurance stakeholders discuss why video verification is critical to the industry’s future — and how it can bring all the different groups together.
Any form of verification of an alarm is good. When it is possible to determine accurately if an alarm is a real intrusion or event, as opposed to a false alarm, the effectiveness of a security system skyrockets, arrests occur, property is protected and the alarm industry’s relationships with law enforcement and insurance are strengthened.
According to the Security Industry Alarm Coalition, the latest statistics from Phoenix, show the city has one of the nation’s best and most effective alarm management programs. In 2011, 84.92 percent of Phoenix alarm users did not have any false alarms and the program recovered more than $2.8 million in costs to city, SIAC stated.
The Lindsay Automotive Group has served the Washington, D.C. metro area since 1949. Three generations of Lindsays have been involved in the daily operations of the dealership family that now includes Lindsay Cadillac and Lindsay Lexus of Alexandria, Va.; Lindsay Ford of Wheaton, Md.; Lindsay Chevrolet, Saturn Service Center, and Isuzu Commercial Trucks of Woodbridge, Va.; Lindsay Volkswagen of Dulles in Sterling, Va.; and Lindsay Collision Center in Springfield, Va.
