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“Receive trusted public safety alerts directly from your police department and other local agencies by text message. No cost, reliable & simple.”

By: Tammy Sue Roberts

That’s the by-line from NIXLE, a new Internet based notification tool that community residents can use to receive information from their local police department about what’s going on in the neighborhood.

Here’s a recent message the residents of Woodland Hills California received:

Advisory Message has been issued by the LAPD - Topanga.

Wednesday June 9, 2010 6:38 PM PDT

Woodland Hills burglary suspects arrested

Two burglary suspects were arrested in Woodland Hills shortly after

breaking into a house.  A diligent neighbor saw the two suspects

entering the home in the 21000 block of Avenue San Luis and called 911.

The police helicopter spotted the suspects' car as they were fleeing the

scene and directed officers to a shopping center on Ventura Boulevard,

where the suspects were arrested.  Due to the quick thinking of the

neighbor in calling 911, the suspects did not get away with any

property; police found that they had dropped the property they were

intending to steal inside the house as they fled.

For full details, go to https://local.nixle.com/alert/2468055/.

Nixle is free to subscribe too, and can be customized to filter the kind of information you want to receive. Although the idea is new, and local law enforcement’s participation varies by area, it appears to be a idea who’s time has come…

Check it out at NIXLE.COM.

Get updates on your cell phone

By: Scott Pinkerton

I found this site that gives you updates on crime traffic and other community events via text to your phone or email. It allows followers to keep with events in their area. By zip code or city is there a way to work it into a blog here is the site http://www.nixle.com. Here is what I copied and from the tarzana woodland hills chamber site: LAPD now offers a free service that allows L.A. residents to sign up to receive messages directly from the Police on crime, traffic, missing persons, emergencies and other public safety information directly to their phones or email inboxes.

Residents can sign up online to receive the updates by text message to their phones, or by email, or both. They can sign up for bulletins based on ZIP code and can sign up for multiple locations so they can keep up to date on traffic, crime and emergencies at their home, workplace, or homes of relatives.