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Municipality ponders private security officer response to all alarms

December 15, 2010Daniel Gelinas

SHAWNEE, Kan.—Police officials here were putting together a proposal for the Shawnee City Council's vote that would have required monitoring companies in the municipality to verify all alarms via a private security officer before dispatching alarms to the police. It's a very restrictive form of verified response that could have had huge implications for the security industry had it gone through, officials said. “The meeting with the Shawnee City Council, city manager and law enforcement...

Bob Scales, Kansas City Burglar and Fire Alarm Association, KCBFAA, Keith Bowman, Lt. Jodi Andrews, Metro Security, private response, Ron Walters, Safeguard KC, Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC), Shawnee Kansas, verified response