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Greater Manchester Police has launched an iOS app, which uses location-based services to fill users in on local events, missing people bulletins and even features the unsettling option of browsing any wanted appeals in your surrounding area.
The free app offers boring old features like community group listings and locations of your local police stations, should you ever want to hand something in like a good citizen, with users also able to contact police through the app if a missing person’s face looks familiar or the perpetrator of a more serious crime needs grassing up.
The app was developed in-house by GMP staff and they are aware that ignoring Android users is a very serious modern tech crime, with the team promising that a Google version of the app will be ready this spring. [iTunes via TNW]
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Aren’t iPhones high on the list of things that get nicked. Going to make it hard to report a theft.
Ha!
I can’t wait for the Android version though. I will become a amateur detective in my spare time!
It’s a good idea for an app I would probably download for my city. I just hope they’ll make use of Android UI guidlines and don’t copy the old design visible in the iOS app.
All info are on http://www.police.uk/ for last couple of years, to put it on app is perhaps the easiest bit of embedding.
I hope this guy has an iPhone then…
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/video-weeding-out-evil—866700