A. Inadequately operated, maintained or installed security alarm systems in residential and commercial buildings can cause false alarms;

B. The persistent, high volume of false alarms endangers the health, safety and welfare of the City’s residents;

C. False alarms also drain limited police resources by preventing, diverting, or delaying police officers and police dispatchers from serving actual public safety needs, such as answering calls for service, addressing the community’s public safety priorities, enforcing laws, investigating and solving crimes, and preventing crime;

D. The unnecessary waste of public tax dollars by police responses to false alarms must be reduced;

E. Regulating alarm systems, alarm users, and companies that provide alarm services in the City is necessary to ensure that every residence and every business in the City, not just those that can afford a security system and monitoring service, are afforded the safety and protection provided by law enforcement;

F. The purpose of this chapter is to encourage alarm businesses and alarm users to maintain the operational viability of their security alarm systems and to significantly reduce or eliminate false alarm dispatch requests made to the Police Department;

G. Regulating alarm systems installed in buildings, alarm users, and alarm businesses is a matter of public policy in pursuing security and promoting the public health, safety and welfare of the City and its residents. (Ord. 3278 § 1, 2013).