A Prince William County police sergeant said the department has lost an estimated 7,500 hours responding to false alarms in fiscal 2008, prompting the Board of Supervisors to pass legislation that would impose escalating fines for those who trigger the alarms.
Sgt. Thomas Garrity of the county police department told the board that there were more than 13,500 alarms triggered in fiscal 2008, and more than 2,200 were canceled by the alarm company before police arrived on the scene.
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