Friday, November 14, 1986 - North Shore News

NEW GENERATION
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IN ANCIENT times, Romans kept can even listen in to the sounds in| a monitoring station to identify systems. And at leas! one company — false-alarm guarantee.
geese to provide an early warning your home. ; the nature of the emergency with muarketing these systems in’ the See Technology
of potential intruders. In the case of an alert, it allows much greater accuracy than older Vancouver area is offering a no- Page 17

Later dogs were kept to protect
their masters. Both systems suf-
fered from a high ratio of false
alarms and, as a result, frequently
failed to arouse a_ slumbering
homeowner when reat danger
threatened.

More recently, electrical circuits,
sirens and searchlights have
replaced the geese and many of the
dogs. False alarms, however, con-
tinue to account for upwards of 90
per cent of all calls received by
police originating from aiarm
systems.

This has resulted in two worry-
ing developments. Police are
slower to respond to alarm system
alerts and municipalities have
begun charging homeowners for

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Faced with these facts, what is a

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