The mission of the "Model States Program" is to assess the data and experiences of the "Model Cities Program" and, through a joint industry effort coordinate activities and efforts within the five "Model States" to substantially reduce the burden of false alarms on the law enforcement community through a cooperative program with the IACP via the State Association of Chiefs of Police in the chosen states.
To develop a consensus and a working relationship between the alarm industry in the "Model States" and the law enforcement community about the causes of false dispatches and to reduce these dispatches by effectively identifying programs which will reduce false dispatches, applying corrective actions and measuring the progress of the false dispatch reduction program. This would include model ordinances and state licensing laws, community education and a response methodology that includes software aimed at identifying alarm owners and malfunction histories or chronic abusers.