Automated Phone Calling Systems Emergency Notification Systems Presented by American Crime Prevention Institute
Automated telephoning systems permit law enforcement and other emergency service agencies to communicate via telephone with a large number of persons or businesses.
Map-Based Geographical Calling List Calling A recorded message is sent by computer to designated telephones.
Persons with unlisted telephones or those with commercial solicitation restriction must sign up with the police to be included - a good Internet web site application. The system will leave a message on an answering machine or automatically recall if line is busy or no answer.
Sometimes referred to as “interactive community policing telephone system. ” TTY/TDD (phone systems designed to assist the hearing and speech impaired) - receive an alert or message in the form of a text message. System can be used to send fax messages or messages to pagers.
Messages to Geographical Areas • Send calls to any telephone in a chosen geographical area • Lost children • Crime Watch - burglaries or car thefts • Missing Alzheimer’s patients • Street closings • Flood alerts • HAZMAT alerts • Sex offender relocation
Designated Messaging • • Neighborhood Watch Coordinators Senior Citizen Health Checks (4 digit code) Business Watch Alerts Check Fraud Alerts Report-For-Duty Staff Calls Media Press Releases Fax Alerts
• • • Day Care Centers Churches Pharmacy Alert Doctor’s Offices Convenience Stores
Three Major Companies Marketing the Systems • “Reverse 911 ” (100 systems) Sigma/Micro Corporation 714 N. Senate Avenue Suite 200 Indianapolis, IN 46202 Phone: (800) 247 -2363 Fax: (317) 631 -6585 www. reverse 911. com
Three Major Companies Marketing the Systems. . . • City Watch (280 systems) Avtex Incorporated 5775 Old Shakopee Road Bloomington, MN 55437 Phone: (800) 323 -3639 www. citywatch. com
Three Major Companies Marketing the Systems. . . • Dialogic Corporation “The Communicator” 730 Cool Springs Blvd. Suite 300 Franklin, TN 37067 Phone: (800) 723 -3207 www. dccusa. com
Price of System • Population of area • Number of telephone lines (8 simultaneously) • Additional modules (“bells and whistles”) • $20, 000 -$50, 000
Thank you The American Crime Prevention Institute is a division of the AEGIS Protection Group, Inc.