What is Alarm Response by Peak Alarm?
Alarm Response
Several Police Departments in the Salt Lake City area will not respond to residential or business alarms without having the alarm verified.
For a reasonable monthly charge Peak Alarm will send a uniformed guard in a marked Peak Security car to respond to your alarm.
You get up to 4 of these responses per year that is included with the monthly fee and then there is a small charge per alarm response.
This is only offered in the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. We do this because Salt Lake City PD will not respond to alarms unless they are PANIC buttons. (Duress)
We also provide KEY response to specific properties where we put a keybox on your property and our guards show up and check the perimeter like they would for alarm response and they also enter the home or business to check inside.
While checking the outside of the building if they find a broken window or forced door then they will call the police and wait for them.
Key response is also useful if we get a temp alarm and your home has dropped below 40 degrees. Our guard can go in and check the home and verify the condition so you can get the proper repair people scheduled to fix your heating system before the pipes freeze. If this is not taken care of then when the pipe thaw then often you will have flooding.
The reason the police give for the non response is that most of the alarms they have responded to in the past were due to user error and false alarms and they consider it a waste of their time so several departments need to have verified alarms before they will send and officer.
Peak Security’s response is normally faster than the police would respond because the departments that do respond prioritize the calls and it may be over an hour before an officer could respond. Most of the time in the valley a Peak Security car can arrive within 15-30 min.
Having camera systems on your home and business is also a prudent measure that can be used in conjunction with your security system.