SIAC Builds Lasting Relationship with APCO
Gains strategic partner in fight against non-response.
Stan Martin, executive director for the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC), and Glen Mowery, SIAC’s law enforcement liaison, recently spoke to members of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) about what SIAC and the industry is doing to reduce alarm dispatches.
“It was apparent that more than 90 percent of those attending had no idea how much progress we have made as an industry and had never seen any positive statistics on reductions,” Stan said. “The session generated quite a bit of positive energy.”
The duo educated the group on SIAC’s training initiatives, ordinances, alarm management committees, Enhanced Call Verification and CP-01 alarm panel standards. After the session, Bill Hobgood, one of the primary coordinators on the new CSAA/911 communications standard, invited Stan to join him as he travels around the country doing promotional/educational sessions on the new standard.
Based on Stan and Glen’s presentation, Donny Jackson of Urgent Communications Magazine has published an article that includes statistics and other information about false dispatches. Read the article here.
This new relationship will go a long way in helping SIAC, the members of NBFAA and the industry, gain nationwide support for Enhanced Call Verification and CP-01 in municipalities looking to combat false dispatches.














