A new and tougher policy to combat false alarms from automatic fire systems was launched last month at a gathering of senior fire and rescue officers. The CFOA Policy for the Reduction of False and Unwanted Alarms was unveiled at the first day of Fire & Rescue 2008 in Liverpool. It replaces the previous CFOA policy which only concerned remotely monitored alarms, and which was felt to discriminate against alarm receiving centres as unwanted fire signals from them are only part of the problem. The document has been revised to take into account the introduction of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, the limited adoption by fire and rescue services of the previous policy, and concerns from the fire industry about inconsistent approaches to unwanted fire signals from individual fire and rescue services. In addition, Unique Registration Numbers (URNs) are no longer essential to the implementation of the new policy.
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