(A) A police officer responding to a police alarm shall prepare a report on his or her action and the actions of other responding officers regarding each alarm, including his or her determination as to whether it was a false alarm, what the weather conditions were at the time, the name of any individual (as representative of the alarm owner) with whom he or she conferred, and the substance of the conversation. The ECPD alarm incident report and/or officers daily activity sheet form shall be used for this purpose.
(B) When that responding officer determines that the criminal activity alarm to which he or she responded was a false alarm and the owner of the alarm system involved submits to the Alarm Administrator a written request for review of that determination within five days of the alarm, then the Alarm Administrator shall provide to the alarm system owner an informal, but binding, review and evaluation hearing at which hearing the entity conducting the hearing shall redetermine the false alarm issue.
(C) (1) In the case of a fire alarm, the highest ranking firefighter shall prepare a “run report,” on which he or she shall indicate whether the alarm was, in his or her determination, a false alarm and submit this report to the ECFD Inspection Bureau.
(2) When the run report indicates a false alarm, the Inspector Bureau shall hand deliver to the owner of the property/alarm system the ECFD false alarm evaluation report, which report, if the owner chooses to challenge the false alarm determination, must be returned by the owner to the Inspection Bureau within five days.
(3) If the false alarm evaluation report is not returned to the Inspection Bureau within five days, the run report determination of false alarm shall stand.
(D) If the false alarm evaluation report is returned to the Inspection Bureau within five days, the Chief Inspector shall, based on the contents of that report and the contents of the run report, make a final binding determination on the issue of whether the alarm shall be treated as a false alarm.
(Prior Code, § 94.06) (Ord. 3483, passed - -1989)