11-14 Automatic Alarm Reduction

Question 1

11-14 Automatic Alarm Reduction

The first element of the A/ARP has been in place for several months and provides OCD with the authorization to cancel resources responding to A/A incidents when a second call is received from a legitimate alarm monitoring company stating that the alarm is false.

Answer 1

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Question 2

11-14 Automatic Alarm Reduction

On a monthly basis, a report listing all automatic alarms by address in order of worst offenders first will be provided to the FPB.

Those repeat offenders will receive a visit and inspection
by a Fire Prevention Bureau inspector and where appropriate, will be sited.

Answer 2

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Question 3

11-14 Automatic Alarm Reduction

The third element of the A/ARP is to identify those alarm monitoring companies that are abusing the 9-1-1 system.

Answer 3

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Question 4

11-14 Automatic Alarm Reduction

When an alarm turn out to be Law enforcement alarm only report the following info to OCD Battalion

Incident Time:
Incident Date:
Incident Number:
Brief description of what was encountered

Answer 4

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