Greetings,
Included in this Informer are:
-Crime Statistics for the previous week
-KCPD launches community text alerts
-Good Neighbor Award Nominations
-Spring Cleaning
KCPD launches Nixle community text alerts service
To get information to the community as quickly as possible, the Kansas
City Missouri Police Department is launching a text message alert system
with Nixle.
Nixle Connect allows the department to instantly inform residents of
current public safety issues via text/SMS, e-mail, Internet posts, and
Twitter. The service is provided at no cost to the department,
taxpayers, or residents.
Communications from the KCPD will range from emergency alerts such as
Amber Alerts and critical incidents to routine day-to-day information
such as violent crime suspects being sought, a burglary pattern, a major
traffic incident, or other relevant information to residents.
"With Nixle, citizens can be aware of the current safety issues in their
neighborhood," Chief Darryl Forté said. "Informed citizens can be our
eyes and ears, helping us solve and prevent crime."
Kansas City residents can sign up to receive free, real-time safety
information by texting their zip code or "KCPD" to 888777 or by visiting
www.nixle.com <
http://www.nixle.com/>
. Once registered, users can customize the types of alerts they wish to
receive via text, email, and online. Any information users submit is
housed on secure Nixle servers and remains anonymous to police staff.
"Additionally, Kansas City will play host to the 2012 Major League
Baseball (MLB) All-Star Game in July," continued Forté. "Nixle Connect
provides us with a way to communicate with the tens of thousands of
baseball fans who will be attending to keep traffic and people flowing
as smoothly as possible, as well as a means to deliver any urgent
messages should an emergency arise."
To receive All Star Game-specific messages, text "ALLSTARKC" to 888777.
More than 4,800 government agencies nationwide have adopted Nixle for
their means of real-time communications with residents, and more than
700,000 citizens have signed up to take advantage of the service.
"Nixle is an easy, quick and secure mass notification tool for public
safety officials to communicate information to the public across
multiple channels," stated Eric Liu, Nixle's CEO. "Both residents and
visitors to Kansas City can benefit greatly from the service."
About Nixle
Founded in 2007, Nixle is the leader in trusted notification services
for law enforcement and government agencies. More than 4,800 government
agencies throughout the United States use Nixle to communicate with
residents via SMS mobile text messaging, email, the Web, and mobile
applications. Over 700,000 citizens rely upon the system. Nixle is
strategically partnered with the National Law Enforcement
Telecommunication System (Nlets) to offer the only public messaging
service on the International Justice and Public Safety network, a system
owned by the fifty states and serving every criminal justice agency in
the US and Canada. Nixle is a privately held company based in San
Francisco, CA.
For more information, visit
www.kcpd.org <
http://www.kcpd.org/> or
www.nixle.com <
http://www.nixle.com/> .
