DETROIT ? If you want to submit a crime tip anonymously to the Detroit Police Department, there?s now an app for that.
Detroit Labs has churned out yet another smart phone application, this one for the DPD that provides information about the city and departments, allows tips to be submitted anonymously through the app and contact numbers for precincts, bureaus and other departments.
The app is available for both iPhone and Android smart phones and according to Police Department officials, makes DPD the first department to offer this type of app. Version 2.0 will include the ability to connect with the community, including pushing notifications of local crimes.
Features include:
Publishing department news and press releases including statistics, major crime summary reports and missing persons reports
Connect to department social media pages
Find phone numbers and emails for precincts, captains and neighborhood police officers
Anonymously submit tips to the department through the app. Woody added the tips come to the department through a series of filters and cannot be tracked to who sent it.
In addition to the police department app, the city is developing an app which will allow residents to report a downed tree, dump site and water main break and allow it to be routed to the proper city department. Also, an app for the Detroit Department of Transportation which will allow residents to find bus schedules and locations of buses.
