False alarm fees set to increase
City council could soon be increasing the fees home security system users pay for generating false alarms.
Right now, alarm system subscribers pay $15 to license their system for police response. Each user gets two free false alarms per year, after which they must call a 1-900 number for police response and pay $75 for each call. Those fees have remained the same for the last eight years.
The proposed increase is to make the subscription fee to $25 and the fee for calling the 1-900 number to $100 per call.
Gary Ryhorchuk, property control by and alarm coordinator with the city’s bylaw department said the by law was in place in the first place to try to bring the number of false alarms down.