FG launches mobile app for sending crime alerts to security agencies

“One noticeable lacuna is info and well timed alert of the safety businesses to incidents of crimes, breach of safety, and pure disasters earlier than they occur or whereas they’re going on. Generally, they’d have been prevented or mitigated if the alert had are available in time.

“As a part of the response to this problem, the ministry of inside has due to this fact developed an utility, a technological innovation that works with the good cell phone or every other gadget with Android or IOS functionality, to ship alerts to all safety businesses in actual time.

“The initiative is consistent with President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s coverage of constructing the safety of lives and property of Nigerians a precedence.

“Additionally it is a part of the target of leveraging on Data and Communication Expertise (ICT) in doing authorities enterprise and operations.

“The app utilises a mix of audio-visual and geospatial location identification of the caller and scenes of incidents on the ministry inter-agency state of affairs room (MISR).

“It additionally works on the command and management centres, dashboards of the 4 companies, that’s, immigration service, correctional service, federal hearth service, civil defence in addition to police headquarters for joint inter-agency operations.”