False Home Security Alarms- What You Need To Know
Make sure every member of your family of age knows how to use your home security system not only to enable the alarm, but also disable the alarm. If you trigger the alarm by mistake make sure you have your codes on your person to identify yourself as the homeowner to the the alarm system operator so they can quickly cancel the potential police dispatch.
Most home security systems give you an adequate amount of time to cancel any pending alarms before action is taken.
Most of the false alarms police respond to are from malfunctioning systems or homeowners who took a less than caring attitude towards learning how to use their burglar alarms.
Today's home security systems are easier than ever to use and operate with minimal amount of problems. Some cities and municipalities now provide a service charge after they've answered a minimum number of false alarms over a period of time. This is to protect their police officers and keep them patrolling the streets rather than answering numerous false alarms to the same residence. A random sampling of false alarm ordinances showed five as the number of times police will report to a home providing a false alarm before they begin charging for their services.
The Home Security Coach has used security systems all his life and only created one false alarm which was quickly canceled. All it takes is a quick understanding of your system and you'll be a pro at using it in no time.