600-31 Burglar, Hold-Up, and Panic Alarms

Question 1

The department shall not charge for responding to the first three false _______ or the first false ______ at a permitted site during a ____ period.

Answer 1

burglar alarm calls, holdup or panic alarm call, 12 month

Question 2

The department shall respond to all holdup and panic alarm calls regardless of _______.

Answer 2

permit status

Question 3

An alarm that is activated by weather or other natural phenomenon.

Answer 3

Exceptional Alarm (XCP)

Question 4

An alarm that is not the result of weather, natural phenomenon, or an emergency or threat of emergency of the kind for which the alarm system was designed to give notice

Answer 4

False Alarm (FAL)

Question 5

The location of the call for service is not within the city limits of Houston

Answer 5

Not Within HPD Jurisdiction (JUR).

Question 6

An alarm that is false and the responding officer issues the alarm user a citation for non-emergency activation of a burglar, holdup, or panic alarm.
e

Answer 6

Ticket (TIC).

Question 7

An alarm that results from the activation of an alarm system in response to an emergency or threat of emergency

Answer 7

True Alarm (TAL)

Question 8

The responding officer is unable to locate the address indicated on the call for service

Answer 8

Unable to Locate (UTL)

Question 9

Exceptions to the permit requirement are an alarm system:

Answer 9

Installed on a motor vehicle.

Designed so notification is not given to the police until after the occupants or an agent of the owner or lessee have inspected the alarm site and determined there is physical evidence showing the alarm was the result of criminal activity, and the occupants or their agent is at the scene and able to grant access to the alarm site.

Designed solely to detect smoke or give notice of fire or smoke.

Question 10

An “exempt permit” is required for an alarm system installed on premises occupied by the United States government or the government of the state of Texas, the City of Houston, or any county. Officers shall ________ alarm clearance code to clear alarm calls to such locations.

Answer 10

NOT use the Ticket (TIC)

Question 11

State law requires a police response within ___ minutes of an alarm notification in order to classify the alarm as false for assessment of false alarm response fees. This does not preclude issuance of citations to owners or operators of non-permitted alarm systems that are not reached within 30 minutes of alarm notification.

Answer 11

30

Question 12

Owners or operators of _______ burglar alarm systems are subject to citations for failing to obtain the proper permit and alarm response fees beginning with the first false alarm response

Answer 12

non permitted

Question 13

A permit holder shall be penalized for a false alarm call only if the Police Department ……

Answer 13

responds to the alarm site within 30 minutes of the alarm notification.

Question 14

A burglar alarm system that has had ______ false alarms during the preceding 12-month period shall be revoked and may be placed in a “do not respond” status.

Answer 14

eight or more

Question 15

The only exception to the “do not respond” policy is alarms

Answer 15

reported by an individual not affiliated with an alarm company.

Question 16

Holdup and panic alarm calls shall _________.

Answer 16

receive a police response regardless of permit status.

Question 17

Officers clearing alarm calls with the Exceptional Alarm clearance code shall

Answer 17

provide an explanation for the clearance code via the mobile computer device. An alarm call shall not be cleared until the responding officer has physically checked the alarm location.

Question 18

If an owner or operator of an alarm system is at the scene of a non-permitted alarm system, the responding officer _______ issue the appropriate citation.

Answer 18

should

Question 19

If an owner or operator of an alarm system is not at the scene when an officer responds to an alarm call that is determined to be a false alarm, the officer shall

Answer 19

place a notice or decal at or on the doorway or principal entry to such site noting the responding

officer’s name

unit number

incident number

date

time.

Question 20

Patrol sergeants shall

Answer 20

monitor burglar alarm calls for service.

Question 21

It is a patrol supervisor’s discretion to

Answer 21

to cancel an alarm call at a site that has demonstrated a history of producing excessive false burglar alarms.

Question 22

Read Sections

Answer 22

ECD and Alarm Enforcement Detail