I updated the Middleton Police Mobile App this morning with some exciting changes. If you are a user of the mobile app, your Android Phone or Iphone will automatically notify you of the update. the Android update will post within 24 hours while the Apple side has to go through an intensive screening process by Apple. That can take up to 20 days.
The biggest change the public user will see is we now have a log in screen. This was build so that I could assign user rights. The public will have the same great features and will only have to select the Public Login Button. No user name or registration is required. Simply hit the public login button once and your mobile app will function the way it does now.
The screen will look like below:
The biggest change the public user will see is we now have a log in screen. This was build so that I could assign user rights. The public will have the same great features and will only have to select the Public Login Button. No user name or registration is required. Simply hit the public login button once and your mobile app will function the way it does now.
The screen will look like below:
While the public will not see many changes, the login screen allows me to add features that are only available to specific groups. For example, police will have access to their emergency checklists. I can add an emergency contact secton where we have all the names and phone numbers in the field of our local state and federal partners. We can also load pre-plans etc that will only be available to folks who we have given user rights to.
I have also created a panic button that will be available to staff at the school if they chose to use it. The panic button will alert 911 and the police to a critical emergency. It will provide us with a message and location information of the emergency within 15 feet of where the user deploys it.
I also perfected the user subscriptions and groups. Subscriptions are public messages where we post notices. You can receive all or choose what to receive or not receive. All the messages show up in the alert section so you can see what we send however you will not be bothered with the notification if you so choose.
Groups are people who we have assigned to a group who will be the only one to receive the message. For example I can send an alert for all off duty police personnel to report to a command post and send gps coordinates and a map of the command post. I can also blast a photo of a missing child or wanted person to all police personnel.
If you are not using the mobile app, I would encourage you to do so. We do not track location information or user information of the public. I would encourage you to receive push notifications and allow location information. This allows you to receive important information that we blast to your neighborhood only. If someone has concerns and wants to see what goes on behind the scenes, I would be happy to have you come in and show you the console so that you can see what we can see.
Our mobile app created in house is the most comprehensive mobile app in the country. We have features that are not available in other commercial products anywhere. Our application allows for critical incident management and through the same program allows us to send real time accurate information to the public and private information to members during critical incident management.
You can download the app free of charge by searching the play store on an Android Device or the App store on the iphone for Middleton Police.
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