I’ve read through the city bylaw here, and there doesn’t seem to be any affordance to “video verification”. The only thing that’s easier with a professional company is that if you have a monitored alarm without security staff in the city, you must provide the police with contact info of two authorized keyholders, while you only need to give them the contact info of a single alarm company that’s capable of responding to alarms on a 24/7 basis.
The only notable exception I can see is that monitors of alarms at financial institutions are allowed to contact police directly without sending someone else to investigate first.
It generally feels like the city/police here has decided that alarms are not a thing for the police to deal with, unless it concerns banks.
The only notable exception I can see is that monitors of alarms at financial institutions are allowed to contact police directly without sending someone else to investigate first.
It generally feels like the city/police here has decided that alarms are not a thing for the police to deal with, unless it concerns banks.