Girls in a Nottinghamshire space have been urged to take up a free app that may present ‘peace of thoughts’. Girls and women within the Warsop space of Mansfield are being provided a cell phone app which can assist safeguard them by appearing as a discreet panic button and physique cam.
The initiative is a part of a Safer Streets scheme that has already seen new CCTV cameras put in in Warsop and focuses on serving to girls and women really feel safer. Now, funding has been allotted to permit 200 residents within the Warsop space free entry to Hollie Guard Further, which supplies customers 24/7 entry to an expert police-approved monitoring crew who can ship assist if required.
Of the 200 funded subscriptions, 26 have already been distributed to residents, and 40 have been transferred to home abuse charity Girls’s Help. The remaining free subscriptions of the Further app might be accessible for one 12 months on a first-come, first-served foundation to residents within the Warsop space, with anybody needing to e mail saferstreets@mansfield.gov.uk.
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Portfolio Holder for Wellbeing, Well being, and Safer Communities, Councillor Angie Jackson, mentioned: “This know-how is on the market at your fingertips. I might encourage anybody who feels they need assistance to remain secure to obtain this app.
“For individuals who really feel extra susceptible and wish further assist, the Further model will give them peace of thoughts that there’s any individual accessible in occasions of want.
“I hope that this app, together with the opposite Safer Streets measures in place, will result in a higher sense of security and wellbeing among the many residents of Warsop, notably girls and women.”
The app acts as a discreet panic button that may be activated in stealth mode by shaking it or tapping it with out indicating to these round {that a} person is on their cellphone. It tracks the person’s exact location in real-time in order that in the event that they activate an alert, the app pinpoints a location and sends particulars to a person’s chosen emergency contacts.
It additionally prompts the cellphone’s digital camera and microphone to seize proof. A person’s emergency contacts can entry these recordings in actual time.
The recordings usually are not saved on the person’s cellphone however on cloud-based safe servers for future use as proof. The app additionally has a timer perform that allows customers dealing with a doubtlessly harmful assembly or state of affairs to set a selected countdown.
If a person marks themselves as secure, the countdown is deactivated. If it’s not deactivated, an alert will mechanically be despatched as soon as the countdown reaches its restrict. One other function of the app is having the ability to log a journey.
The Hollie Gazzard Belief developed the app to guard ladies and men from potential hazard. The Belief was arrange by the dad and mom and sister of Hollie Gazzard, who was murdered by an ex-partner in 2014 at her place of business in Gloucester.
The app goals to enhance different components of a £300,000 Safer Streets scheme within the Warsop space. It’s a part of a wider £3m marketing campaign funded by the federal government through the Workplace of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire for initiatives throughout the town and county.
Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner Caroline Henry mentioned: “Stopping violence in opposition to girls and women is one in every of my prime priorities within the Make Notts Protected Police and Crime Plan as a result of females are so disproportionately affected by violence.
“Safer Streets funding offers us a novel alternative to place in place a variety of measures to deal with this downside and assist girls and women really feel safer when they’re out in public.
“The free provide of the Hollie Guard app is simply one other instance of considering exterior the field and making certain we have all angles lined in terms of being secure – and feeling secure. It offers customers the peace of thoughts that they’ve assist at hand in the event that they want it.”
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