To provide necessary information to agencies responding to activated security alarms in campus buildings. To establish a procedure for the registration and installation of security alarms. To establish how security alarms are monitored. To establish a procedure for handling false alarms. Definition Alarms are any assembly of equipment which is designed or functions to provide an audible, mechanical, or electrical signal or phone message which indicates a disturbance or some other activity that requires urgent attention.
Security alarms are intrusion alarms, tamper alarms, or panic alarms.
DPS assumes no cost whatsoever for these systems. Department will complete an installation request form obtained from DPS before a system is purchased. Monitoring of security alarms is provided by commercial vendors. DPS can assist with securing names of potential alarms vendors.