Register Your Alarm

Police officers and firefighters respond to thousands of accidental alarms every year. These responses to false alarms tie up life-saving resources and funds. Our Accidental Alarm Program works to prevent false alarms.

How the Accidental Alarm Program works

Register your alarm to avoid a $100 fine for each of the first three accidental alarms that may occur at your address in a rolling one-year period.

Excessive accidental alarm activations within a rolling one-year period carry the following fines regardless of registration.

  • 4-5 - $100 each

  • 6-7 - $200 each

  • 8-9 $300 each

  • 10+ - $500 each

Register Your Alarm

What is an accidental alarm?

An accidental alarm is any signal that prompts an emergency response from police officers and firefighters who do not discover an emergency after arriving. Malfunctioning equipment, human error, or environmental factors often cause accidental alarm activations.

Do you have questions?

If you have additional questions or comments email records-police@townofchapelhill.org or call the Chapel Hill Police Department at 919-968-2760.

If you have questions about the registration process or appeals call 1-855-725-7107 to reach Cry Wolf, the vendor which handles this process.

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