How about a app that updates your position by gps or triangulation then downloads the nearest police or fire department numbers, ambulance. This can run in background or on demand. Have an emergency call center screen with a call button for police or fire, ambulance. Might be handy for travelers. Just a thought........
depending on where you are, there could be a delay in time to 911 and response. when you call 911 the operator then has to send that call to the correct dispatching center. whether it be police command, Firecom, or the local agencies dispatch. In a emergency these seconds minutes could be priceless.
From Experience, I could be sitting in my HQ listening to the police scanner, here a medical call for my community, get up, shut down what im doing, and have the ambulance on the ramp waiting before we are toned out for the same call.
depending on where you are, there could be a delay in time to 911 and response. when you call 911 the operator then has to send that call to the correct dispatching center. whether it be police command, Firecom, or the local agencies dispatch. In a emergency these seconds minutes could be priceless.
From Experience, I could be sitting in my HQ listening to the police scanner, here a medical call for my community, get up, shut down what im doing, and have the ambulance on the ramp waiting before we are toned out for the same call.
You are correct - I am with a Search and Rescue squad and here in Califoria we never recomend calling 911 from a cell phone as it sends the call to the CHP dispach center where there can be a hold time of up to 10 minutes and THEN they transfer you to the correct region and THEN they transfer you to the local resource.
We recomend saving the local police numbers for area where people frenquently travel into your contact list. An app like this would be cool - it would not even need to use GPS - cell trianglation would be fine to determine the local area.
So I checked and Poynt works if you enter police in the search. I am going to make a feature request that they have an optional emergency button that would populate with police, fire and hospitals in a close radius.
