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Alarm Systems

• Contact switches on the door of the vault;
   
• A device designed to detect illegal entry into the vault (i.e., electrical lacing of walls, floors, and ceilings; sensitive ultra sonic equipment within the vault; or sound accumulator system); and
   
• Safes and steel cabinets, if necessary, depending on the quantities and type of controlled substance medications stored, must be equipped with an alarm system, which upon unauthorized entry will transmit a signal directly to a central station protection company, a police department, or a 24-hour control station operated by the NTP. It is recommended that each NTP contact their local DEA Diversion Field Office (see Appendix D) to determine if their program’s safe/steel cabinet requires an alarm system.
   
• Vaults must be equipped with an alarm system, which upon unauthorized entry will transmit a signal directly to a central station protection company, a police department, or a 24-hour control station operated by the NTP.

For additional security of staff, patients, and medication, it is recommended that components of the alarms system also include:

• A perimeter alarm system covering doors and windows of the program; and
   
• Holdup alarms in strategic areas (i.e., the reception and dispensing areas).

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