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The Monitoring Association has initiated work on a new American National Standard, AVS-01, which will use data applicable to alarm activations at protected premises to create an alarm validation score. The score will be an important piece of information provided when an alarm monitoring center contacts an ECC/PSAP to generate a burglar alarm call-for-service.

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Using video and audio to verify intrusion alarms is gaining momentum. Leadership of the Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR) explains how smarter technology is slashing false dispatches and optimizing law enforcement response.

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SUMMARY: The Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR) is
pleased to announce Tom Nakatani, IT VP of Customer Monitoring Technology for ADT, has been
elected President.

As PPVAR continues to work toward its mission of promoting the value of verification during the
dispatch process, it is expanding the composition of its Board of Directors to increase the number of
public safety representatives. This change will ensure that the PPVAR board will represent a
balanced team of professionals with excellent relationships across both public and private sectors as
they work together on the issues related to alarm response process.

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The Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR) is an organization bringing together Law Enforcement, Insurance, and the Security Industry to coordinate efforts to verify alarm activity, reduce false alarms, and increase apprehension rates and officer safety.

An important part of this mission is to develop standards and recommendations for making effective use of new technology and services – especially when innovations challenge relationship norms between the alarm industry and Public Safety. PPVAR believes that Law Enforcement must be allowed to make use of appropriate technology with the proper safeguards. To that effect:

PPVAR encourages clear and proactive communication of any relationships between Public Safety and Private companies.
PPVAR encourages transparency in those communications of the nature of the relationship and conditions and obligations of the involved parties.

Signed,

PPVAR Board of Directors

For more information please visit www.ppvar.org