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...False alarms have a variety of causes, including employees simply forgetting to turn off the alarm before entering their office--as is the case with Radcliffe Yard alarm--or entering the wrong access code...
HUPD spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara says "99.9 percent of those alarms are employee alarm error, accidental, defective alarm or an unknown cause...
Since he started overseeing the alarm systems in 1996, Charlie Mung, security systems coordinator for the University, the number of alarms installed on campus has increased dramatically...
When Mung notices a pattern of repeated alarm calls, he speaks with the manager of the building, who then discusses it with the employees who work in the building...
...Only about five or six percent [of the alarm calls] are defective equipment," Mung says. "The other percent are employee errors...