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SFPD activates Everbridge alert system; homicide unit outlines scene-response protocols
Summary
At the San Francisco Police Commission meeting Jan. 4, 2017, Capt. Alexa O'Brien said the SFPD went live with Everbridge to notify command staff and partner investigators simultaneously in officer-involved-shooting events and reviewed homicide scene and decedent-removal protocols and year-to-date clearance figures.
The San Francisco Police Commission on Jan. 4 heard that the Police Department has gone live with a mass-notification system intended to speed and standardize responses to officer-involved shootings and other critical incidents.
Capt. Alexa O'Brien, captain of the Major Crimes Unit, told commissioners the department implemented Everbridge, a telephonic and electronic alert system, to notify approximately 65 recipients at once by phone, text and email. "We have now moved to what's called a modern critical communications telephonic program called Everbridge," she said, adding the system replaces a previously manual process of calling down a long list of contacts.
O'Brien described how the system is expected to reduce lag time and the problem of staggered…
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