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The merchants already have a new free application to improve their security.
Councilors Lola Sanchez, Traffic and Citizen Security, and Maruja Pelegrin, Institutional Relations and Commerce, today presented this new service through which the merchant can give, discreetly and quickly, a notice to the Local Police with only two clicks on your mobile phone.
This notice will immediately reach the local police headquarters who will quickly send a patrol to the shop.
The informative campaign, in which the neighborhood police will distribute 15,000 leaflets in which the instructions for use appear, will begin in the neighborhood of El Carmen.
Once the application is downloaded, available for Android and soon for Iphone, you must register in the 'Register' section by entering the requested data for the correct identification of the trade.
The registration process must be done while in the store and have GPS activated, since the application will automatically register the position of the same, for the location of the establishment by the Local Police.
In addition, the same location may be identified in several mobile devices so that all employees have the possibility to use it.
When the Local Police verify the data entered, they will proceed to register the trade in the service.
Then you can perform a first test of operation, by pressing the emergency button, after which the system will return a message indicating that the application 'Safe Commerce' is working correctly.
After registration, a blue emergency button will appear on the screen each time the application is accessed and, once it is pressed, it will change to red indicating that the Local Police is already notified, knows what trade is and what is its location .
In addition, under the red button an incident number will appear, as well as the status of its evolution.
Security tips for businesses
Taking advantage of the launch of this application, the Local Police has published a series of safety tips for businesses, which are the following:
- In case of detecting someone who is suspicious, notify the police as soon as possible.
Be wary of anyone who enters with a helmet or any clothing that hides their face.
- Before a robbery, never confront the robbers, keep calm and do not endanger their physical integrity.
Observe the robbers well in order to offer a good description of them.
- As soon as possible, press the button 'Secure Trade' and do nothing else, the Local Police of Murcia, you will immediately receive the request for help and will be on the way to your establishment.
- Remember that if the button is in Red, the police is already warned.
- Remember that you can also contact the Local Police of Murcia by calling 968 35 87 50
- After the robbery, do not touch anything, if necessary ask for medical help.
- Ask the witnesses to stay, and write down the ones you observed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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