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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Ind. Courts - "Court scuffle puts new alert system to test"
Updating this story from yesterday, Rebecca S. Green of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports today in a story that begins:
Monday’s Courthouse brawl provided one of the most serious tests of a relatively new panic alarm system installed in a number of offices throughout the historic building.Sheriff’s department Sgt. Brian Sandberg said 64 of the alarms are installed throughout the Allen County Courthouse, with 21 others in a nearby annex, nine in the City-County Building, and 11 in the Bud Meeks Criminal Justice Center.
Three of the alarms near the corridor where the fight occurred were set off Monday morning, and according to department logs, officers responded in less than a minute.
When the alarm is pressed, there is no audible alarm, but county officers in the building receive three radio transmissions telling them the location of the alarm, Sandberg said. Though the alarms are occasionally set off by accident, they are rarely set off on purpose. Monday’s was the most serious occurrence since their installation about a year ago, Sandberg said.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 27, 2008 07:56 AM
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