CrimeReports.com Partners with Ottawa Police Service Expanding Reach into Canada.Police Agencies Able to Offer Real-Time Information on Criminal Activity to the Public Through CrimeReports.com SALT LAKE CITY -- CrimeReports.com today announced it has signed its first metropolitan agency in Ottawa. Partnered with CrimeReports.com, the Ottawa Police Service The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) (Service de police d'Ottawa in French) serves the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. History The service celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2005. (OPS Ops (ŏps), in Roman religion, goddess of harvests. She was the wife of Saturn, by whom she bore Jupiter and Juno. At her festivals, the Opiconsivia and the Opalia, held in August and December, respectively, she was worshiped as a goddess of sowing ) will now be able to offer the public simple and easy access to information regarding criminal activity in the community. Daily updates will include frequency and type of criminal activity such as robberies, stolen vehicles, mischief A specific injury or damage caused by another person's action or inaction. In Civil Law, a person who suffered physical injury due to the Negligence of another person could allege mischief in a lawsuit in tort. and the location of traffic complaints. CrimeReports.com, in partnership with a police agency, gathers information from varied police reporting mechanisms and puts it into a highly visual, easy-to-read, searchable map. From this map, the public is able to access real-time information regarding events occurring in their own neighborhood. The site is free to the public and also allows users to receive customized email notifications when crime happens near home or work. "We are pleased to partner with the Ottawa Police Service. Our partnership with OPS will enable the public to gain access to critical information regarding their community," said Greg Whisenant, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CrimeReports.com. "We look forward to the day when all police departments and agencies achieve this level of transparency (1) The quality of being able to see through a material. The terms transparency and translucency are often used synonymously; however, transparent would technically mean "seeing through clear glass," while translucent would mean "seeing through frosted glass." See alpha blending. ." "CrimeReports.com allows Ottawa Police to provide our citizens with valuable information via the internet that would otherwise be difficult, if not impossible to communicate," said Randy Mar, Director of Corporate Planning with the Ottawa Police Service. "As our citizens become familiar with this new information they will better understand what is going on in their neighbourhood and how to stay alert and stay informed." CrimeReports.com works with police agencies throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. providing public access to real-time crime data. About CrimeReports.com CrimeReports.com provides law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). with an affordable and easy-to-use Web-based service that lets them share up-to-date neighborhood crime data with the public. Community members can then access this information for free, empowering them to make informed decisions to help improve the safety of their families, friends, property and the community at large. For more information, please visit www.CrimeReports.com. |
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