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- Here at West Virginia University, they have installed invisible,
- indelible ink
- alarm boxes in some of the more false alarm prone residence halls &
- buildings.
- Usually when a false comes in late at night, the Resident Directors
- will allow
- students to enter only through certain doors, checking each of them
- with a
- hand held black light scanner. The ink will show on the person who
- pulled the
- alarm, & is distributed well enough that it is next to impossible to
- avoid the
- spray. (It'll get on their clothing, hands, under fingernails, etc)
- We've
- caught several people this way, and each levied a decent fine of
- $100.00 or
- so. It has also proven to cut our false alarms by a good amount.
- Another
- tactic we use is to bring in police dogs, with the intent to search
- the
- building for victims. These dogs are also well known for their drug
- sniffing
- capabilities. This also has seemed to work decently well.
-
- Mark Caravasos, Morgantown FD, Morgantown, WV
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