False alarm calls targeted by Oklahoma cities

 
BY BRYAN PAINTER
Published: January 1, 2010

It’s not a New Year’s resolution. It’s the law.

In 2009, the city of Yukon began testing a revised ordinance on false alarms.

Now the grace period is over, Yukon Police Chief Gary Wieczorek said.

Yukon dispatched officers on 512 burglar alarms in 2008. By the end of November 2009, they had sent officers out on 632 burglar alarms. Of those 632 alarms, 582 were listed as false, Wieczorek s...


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