The Palm Beach County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office became the 144th emergency communications center in the United States and the 11th ECC in the state of Florida to implement The Monitoring Association’s (TMA) Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP).

Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, TMA’s ASAP service is designed to increase the accuracy and efficiency of calls for service from alarm monitoring centers to ECCs.    

Palm Beach County went live on May 13 with the following alarm companies: Rapid Response Monitoring; ADT; Affiliated Monitoring; Alert 360; Brinks Home Security; Dynamark Monitoring; Guardian Protection; National Monitoring Center (NMC); Everon (ADT Commercial); Securitas; Security Central; Johnson Controls; United Central Control (UCC); Vector Security; and, Vivint.

To learn more about TMA's ASAP program, go here.