ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwired - November 07, 2013) - Sonitrol, the security industry's leader in audio verification technology, has reached a milestone by assisting in its 170,000th documented apprehension since 1977, when the company began documenting apprehension statistics. Sonitrol's unprecedented record of success in assisting law enforcement in the apprehension of intruders is attributed to the nearly 50 years of dedication and advancement of the company's unique, impact-activated, audio intrusion detection technology. Sonitrol provides businesses and homeowners with 100% volumetric wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling protection -- monitored and verified in real time -- allowing for a quicker response by law enforcement, and resulting in more apprehensions of potentially criminal trespassers then traditional non-verified alarm systems.

The 170,000 documented apprehensions over the last 36 years -- or approximately one apprehension every 111 minutes -- is a result of a mutually beneficial relationship between local law enforcement agencies around the country and Sonitrol's professionally trained operators. Sonitrol's ability to verify an intrusion in real time offers unrivaled credibility with local law enforcement. As a growing number of municipalities pass Verified Response regulations requiring verification that an intrusion is actually taking place before law enforcement dispatch personnel to the site, the reliability of Sonitrol's audio intrusion system offers a key advantage over competing traditional intrusion systems.

"False alarms are wasting a lot of officers' time, but with Sonitrol, we feel more confident responding to a call for one of their alarms," said Robert Stack, Assistant Chief of Police, Lexington, Kentucky. "The audio verification provides us the ability to respond more quickly and tactically to an in-progress break-in. Any time we have real-time information, it affects how fast an officer responds and how they approach the situation. And, as far as officer safety is concerned, it makes a huge difference."

Properties protected by Sonitrol's unique impact-activated audio verification technology are remotely monitored around-the-clock by operators from one of the company's 26 central monitoring stations throughout the United States and Canada. In the event a possible intrusion is detected, one of Sonitrol's highly trained operators automatically receives the live audio feed from the protected facility, which is used to indentify, verify and respond to the potential alarm. If the operator identifies the sounds as an actual break-in, only then is local law enforcement enlisted to respond to the alarm. The process of audio verification allows local law enforcement to efficiently strategize their response and maximize their resources, while saving the customer from unnecessary false alarm fines.