The Staffordshire Smart Alert App and Website, which is people aged 12 years or over, allows local people to receive personalised Staffordshire Smart Alerts by email direct to their phone or tablet or through an app. Alerts include incident numbers and contact details so members of the public can contact Staffordshire Police if they have any relevant information.
Staffordshire Smart Alert App and website has been shortlisted for the GovDelivery 2016 Digital Strategy & Impact Awards in the Creative Use of Citizen Engagement award category.
Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Ellis said: “This is part of the agenda I set out around harnessing the power of communities to turn the tables on criminals. The Staffordshire Smart Alert will do just that with thousands of pairs of eyes and ears being used to support the police.
“I want to pay tribute to the team that have taken the idea and developed it in a way that will help communities and businesses across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent and help Staffordshire Police engage with new audiences, including young people as well as those they already communicate with.
“The Staffordshire Smart Alert technology is an important development.”
The Staffordshire Smart Alert App and website is one of three projects to be shortlisted and the winner will be announced at a conference in London.
More than 53,000 people are now receiving messages from Staffordshire Smart Alert just six months after it launched. The Staffordshire Smart Alert App has been downloaded over 3,800 times and the website has also received over 1,500 new registrations for email alerts since it launched in March 2016.
The free Staffordshire Smart Alert App can be downloaded from the Apple and Android App stores or you can sign up to receive email alerts via the website www.staffordshiresmartalert.uk
