28/09/2001
RUC change policy to ensure fewer false alarms
The RUC is upgrading its policy on Electronic Security Systems to ensure fewer false alarms and a more efficient police response to genuine alerts.
According to the police, during the past year, 95 per cent of the 35,000 calls received turned out to be false.
Police believe this high rate of false calls leads to an unacceptable waste of finite resources. The aim of the new policy, which comes into effect on 1 October, is to reduce the number of false calls and improve response times to the smaller number of genuine alerts.
RUC Crime Prevention Officer, Chief Inspector Mark Mason, said: “Our aim is to reduce the number of wasteful, false alarms so that genuine calls will receive a faster police response. That's got to be in everyone's interests - except the criminal's.
"The changes will affect new installations which must have the confirmed standards technology system. These changes will also affect some of the older existing systems which generate excessive false calls. When they lose police response, they will be required to upgrade their system to confirmed technology and pay the administration fee to have police response re-instated.”
From 1 October 2001 all newly installed alarm systems must meet ‘confirmed technology standards’ – in that each system must be able to generate a second sensor activation to confirm the first alert before a police response is activated.
All existing systems will remain acceptable unless they generate an excessive number of false calls, in which case they will be required to upgrade to such a confirmed technology system.
The new policy has been developed in conjunction with the electronic alarms industry and major users and is a direct result of the introduction of a new national policy by the Association of Chief Police Officers. (AMcE)
According to the police, during the past year, 95 per cent of the 35,000 calls received turned out to be false.
Police believe this high rate of false calls leads to an unacceptable waste of finite resources. The aim of the new policy, which comes into effect on 1 October, is to reduce the number of false calls and improve response times to the smaller number of genuine alerts.
RUC Crime Prevention Officer, Chief Inspector Mark Mason, said: “Our aim is to reduce the number of wasteful, false alarms so that genuine calls will receive a faster police response. That's got to be in everyone's interests - except the criminal's.
"The changes will affect new installations which must have the confirmed standards technology system. These changes will also affect some of the older existing systems which generate excessive false calls. When they lose police response, they will be required to upgrade their system to confirmed technology and pay the administration fee to have police response re-instated.”
From 1 October 2001 all newly installed alarm systems must meet ‘confirmed technology standards’ – in that each system must be able to generate a second sensor activation to confirm the first alert before a police response is activated.
All existing systems will remain acceptable unless they generate an excessive number of false calls, in which case they will be required to upgrade to such a confirmed technology system.
The new policy has been developed in conjunction with the electronic alarms industry and major users and is a direct result of the introduction of a new national policy by the Association of Chief Police Officers. (AMcE)
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