If you're talking about the $35 alarm license fee, I'm sure you know that
is not to pay for the cost of answering your alarm. I think its to provide
information on who you are so that they have a responsible party to collect a
fine from when you create too many false alarms.
I hope that all of us with alarms understand that aside from driving our
neighbors nuts (and we have done this at our house - sorry to those who have
heard it), false alarms do consume police time and cost the city money. When
they are investigating your false alarm, they are not available for other
dispatches, other than top priority emergencies. Indeed, some "unfounded"
dispatches could account for slow responses when you really need them.
And I agree that I would be more worried about my alarm company taking 15
minutes to respond than the police taking a few hours. The cops probably have
an excuse. What does the alarm company say?
In a message dated 11/17/2004 11:40:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Dan Myers"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Well, I really didn't think that a 15 minute response time is considered
>great to begin with. If it was a break in and you were home, it could have
>been a bad situation. (it's a little far-fetched, but it could happen) My
>alarm company usually calls within 30 seconds -2 minutes of my loud alarm
>going off. It once went off while we were on vacation in Maine. It scared us
>the whole time we were there, but it wound up that we left a door ajar and
>the wind was opening and closing it...which is why the alarm kept going off
>for 3 hours. I felt bad for our neighbors. But the police came out (or so
>they said) and checked everything to be ok. The alarm company even told the
>police officers to look in the back yard, since it was my back door alarm
>that was going off.
>
>Having the police come over after an hour when an alarm goes off is
>terrible. Why do we pay those alarm fees every year if not for a quick
>response time from the cops?
>
>Dan Myers
>215.901.0899
>Certified Massage Practitioner
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Heather and Chris Gasda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Dan Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:39 AM
>Subject: Re: [UC] Police Response Time--Infuriating!!!
>
>
>> Chalmers Security--they've been really great so far.
>>
>>
>> --- Dan Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> What alarm company do you have?
>>>
>>> Dan
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Heather and Chris Gasda"
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:26 PM
>>> Subject: [UC] Police Response Time--Infuriating!!!
>>>
>>>
>>> > Our alarm company called me at 12:04pm to tell me
>>> that
>>> > 2 of our detectors had gone off at 11:49am; they
>>> had
>>> > dispatched the police immediately. As of now,
>>> 1:16pm,
>>> > the police still have not shown up at the house!
>>> > Having called the police to make sure everything
>>> was
>>> > ok, I was told they had been dispatched, but had
>>> not
>>> > come yet. I told them not to bother, as I had
>>> come
>>> > home and found it to be a false alarm, but I was
>>> told
>>> > they had to come once called. Not within a
>>> reasonable
>>> > time frame, apparently! What a great use of
>>> > resources--don't send them when needed, but send
>>> them
>>> > late and unnecessarily. To add insult to injury, I
>>> saw
>>> > 2 patrol cars idly driving about during this time.
>>> >
>>> > Pleeease tell me this is an abberation!!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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