Helping the Police help us..
Last week at IFSEC 2007, the largest European gathering for the security industry, Connexion2 won an award. Not just any award, the first ever ACPO sponsored award for our work in helping improve public safety.
Its always nice to gain such industry recognition but for me the exciting bit is how specific recognition was given to how we have worked to ensure our technology meets and exceeds published ACPO guidelines.
The Association of Chief Police Officers are strating to recognise the growing need to support lone workers and to provide an effective and proportional response to any major incident involving a lone worker. Robbery related attacks in particular are of significant concern to them but it can often be difficult to validate the severity of an incident and be certain of its whereabouts. Key elements if a fast response is required.
ACPO frown on mobile phones being used as 'panic alarms' by workers, specifically those at risk of being caught up in a robbery. Primarily because they acknowledge the increased risks to the worker in asking them to use such an obvious form of communication. Also though because of the higher risk of false alarms and the reduced opportunity to gather credible, audio evidence.
Identicom solves all of these usability issues and ensures effective dual verification of an incident is possible as well as being able to take a view on the incident severity. Thus, the Police are only effectively engaged if the incident warrants their involvement.
If you need to improve your relationship with the Police to acheive a better level of response to your lone worker needs then let me know, I'd be happy to help.
Its always nice to gain such industry recognition but for me the exciting bit is how specific recognition was given to how we have worked to ensure our technology meets and exceeds published ACPO guidelines.
The Association of Chief Police Officers are strating to recognise the growing need to support lone workers and to provide an effective and proportional response to any major incident involving a lone worker. Robbery related attacks in particular are of significant concern to them but it can often be difficult to validate the severity of an incident and be certain of its whereabouts. Key elements if a fast response is required.
ACPO frown on mobile phones being used as 'panic alarms' by workers, specifically those at risk of being caught up in a robbery. Primarily because they acknowledge the increased risks to the worker in asking them to use such an obvious form of communication. Also though because of the higher risk of false alarms and the reduced opportunity to gather credible, audio evidence.
Identicom solves all of these usability issues and ensures effective dual verification of an incident is possible as well as being able to take a view on the incident severity. Thus, the Police are only effectively engaged if the incident warrants their involvement.
If you need to improve your relationship with the Police to acheive a better level of response to your lone worker needs then let me know, I'd be happy to help.
posted by Craig Swallow at 1:41 PM
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