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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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2 results foundAuthor: Corcoran, Jonathan Title: Malicious Hoax Calls and Suspicious Fires: An examination of their spatial and temporal dynamics Summary: Malicious hoax calls for service and suspicious fires are a significant burden to the community financially and in the potential danger they present, yet little is known about the dynamics associated with their prevalence. The present research is the first of its kind in Australia to comprehensively examine these offences using unit-level location data supplied by the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service. The aim of this research is to identify the temporal and spatial patterning of malicious hoax calls and suspicious fires. Analyses employed advanced methods of geographic visualisation and statistics to track the changing spatial patterns of these events over 13 years. Understanding the patterning of fire events provides an evidence base for initiatives designed to reduce the incidence of hoax calls for service and suspicious fires. Details: Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 2013. 5p. Source: Internet Resource: Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 459: Accessed July 18, 2013 at: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/441-460/tandi459.html Year: 2013 Country: Australia URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/441-460/tandi459.html Shelf Number: 129442 Keywords: ArsonCalls for ServiceHoax Calls (Australia)Suspicious Fires |
Author: Kuhns, Joseph B. Title: An Assessment of the Calculation Process and Validity of False Alarm Estimates Summary: False Security Alarms -- In the past, false alarm activations and dispatches have been consistently reported at over ninety percent. Alarm ownership rates are also increasing. Therefore, although there is a national downward trend for false alarm calls, law enforcement agencies in some jurisdictions (e.g., areas with no alarm ordinance) are responding to increased numbers of false alarm activations. In these types of jurisdictions, false alarms may account for a considerable proportion of calls for service. -- Academic research specifically addressing the issue of false alarms is scarce. -- Considerable variability exists in how false alarms and false dispatches are defined and calculated. -False alarms are often described as residential or commercial security alarm activations that lead to a law enforcement response, but where no evidence of criminal activity is found. However, there are inconsistencies within this definitional framework. - Of greater concern with the broadly used term false alarm - is the lack of clarification between false alarm activations - and false dispatches.¨ -- A false alarm is broadly defined as an unsubstantiated alarm activation. -- A false dispatch involves the unwarranted request for law enforcement response. False dispatches should be a greater concern for local jurisdictions given the consumption of scarce resources and the opportunity costs associated with responding. - Calls for service that are determined to be unknown in origin are generally declared as false by law enforcement, but the alarm industry may consider these valid based on the assumption that an intrusion was likely prevented. Both positions have merit. Details: Irving, TX: Alarm Industry Research and Educational Foundation, 2010. 20p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 25, 2014 at: http://airef.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Assessment_of_the_Calculation_Process_and_Validity_of_False_Alarm_Estimates_-_Final_Report-05_12_10-2.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://airef.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Assessment_of_the_Calculation_Process_and_Validity_of_False_Alarm_Estimates_-_Final_Report-05_12_10-2.pdf Shelf Number: 134241 Keywords: BurglaryCalls for ServiceFalse Alarms (U.S.)Security Systems |