While emergency situations remain constant threats to communities worldwide, and are on the rise for many cities, a number of First Responders in addition to local, state and federal government agencies have to respond to emergencies and protect the public with strained or reduced budgets and resources.

Communities the world over are faced with many types of threats:

With the advent of technology moving into all areas of our lives at the business, community, home, civic and government levels, the Internet and wireless based technology has and continues to find its way into the area of Next Generation 9-1-1 Communications.

The Cell Phone C.O.P.S.™ Next Generation (multilingual) 2-Way Multimedia Alerting System gives First Responders and the average Citizen the ability to help protect their communities, families and themselves.

FACTS:

• There are 204 million cell phones in use in the USA
• And 2.2 billion cell phones globally
• Approximately 85% of cell phones have multimedia capabilities
• Multimedia = images, video, voice recordings and text messaging
• USA 9-1-1 Communications Centers receive over 82 million calls a year from cell phones
• First Responders, local, state and federal governmental agencies do not have the ability to handle multimedia messages sent Send to and from cell phones
• There are documented cases over the last several years where criminals were apprehended, prosecuted, convicted and jailed as a result of their actions being captured by a regular citizen using a cell phone:
  • In New York City police say a 15-year-old girl used her cell phone camera to snap a picture of a man who was exposing himself, source: Associated Press”
  • “A Lemont Township man who tried to lure four teenage girls into his car was arrested after the same girls spotted him and took a shot of his license plate with a cell phone, source: CBS2chicago.com”

Both the Cell Phone C.O.P.S.™ stand alone and integrated solutions gives the average Citizen the ability to not only send multimedia messages using their cell phones, web enabled PDA’s and computers to 9-1-1 Communications Centers but it also gives Citizens the ability to receive multimedia alerts from participating First Responders, local, state and federal governmental agencies.

You can think of Cell Phone C.O.P.S.™ as a wireless digital neighborhood watch community for emergency notifications.

Cell Phone C.O.P.S.™ also invites you to sign up to receive our free text (and email) based Severe Weather Alerts for any location in the USA. Please note however that your wireless carrier may charge you a fee to receive the text message (please see our FAQ’s for more information on this subject.)

CAN YOU IMAGE?

• Weather alerts automatically sent to your phone while your are shopping, at work, having lunch, at a picnic, at a restaurant and even when you cell phone is on your night stand next to your bed at night when a tornado comes out of nowhere.
• Your cell phone becomes a crime deterrent making for a safer community.
• A suspicious incident is taking place on a street Anywhere, USA. A citizen armed with only a cell phone captures an image or video and sends it to 9-1-1 who in turns forwards the image or video to the officers being dispatched to the scene.

With the Cell Phone C.O.P.S.™ solution, the communications, safety and security benefits described in the scenarios above are realistically and rapidly becoming reality.

Cell Phone C.O.P.S.™ is committed in its continued efforts to “Help Shape The Way America Keeps Its Citizens Safe®”. And in this post "911" and "VA Tech" climates we must not only use technology to our advantage, allowing technology to drive our security efforts, We must band together as a nation at the community level with Citizens, Law Enforcement, Universities and Businesses alike taking the lead to ensure the safety of our families, our communities and America.