Keeping You Out of Harm’s Way,

with Swivel.

Receive time-sensitive, localized alerts directly from the police authority.

What is Swivel?

Swivel is designed to put your safety first and to help keep you out of harm’s way. The name is based on the concept of “keeping one’s head on a swivel”, to be vigilant and aware of one’s surroundings.

Swivel is a mobile app that receives localized alerts, that are time-sensitive directly from the authorities. If there is an incident near you, you’ll be automatically and expediently alerted. No bias, no opinions or comments, no social media noise. Information straight from a trusted source to help keep you out of harm’s way.

Swivel is a free app, with no user fees and no advertising. It will soon be available for download from the Google Play Store and the Apple Store.

The app is part of a comprehensive and fortified platform for public safety and well-being created by the Public Safety Council Corp. It was developed to support a whole-of-society approach to public safety without compromising privacy rights or civil liberties.

Swivel’s advanced alerting system is the most comprehensive, ultra-secure, automated and localized alerting system in the world. The Public Safety Council Corp developed the Swivel Public Safety Platform to help authorities improve communication, efficiencies and outcomes. One app provides seamless coverage among all participating jurisdictions.

What is a Whole-of-Society Approach to Public Safety and Well-being?

A whole-of-society approach leverages both public and private resources with a diversity of stakeholders. The cumulative effect produces a whole that is exponentially bigger than its parts. With respect to public safety and well-being, working together fosters a safer environment for everyone in the community.

The Public Safety Council Corp. supports a structured and strategic approach that enlists all elements of the community. The Swivel Public Safety Platform provides a comprehensive and proficient suite of tools for the authority and key community stakeholders, while the Swivel app alerts the public to need-to-know incidents that are in close proximity to your location and/or your addresses of interest.

True to the whole-of-society model, it requires minimal investment of time and resources from any individual stakeholder but yields exponential increases in public safety and well-being, as it reduces victimization and mitigates risk, while improving efficiencies and reducing costs.

How Does Swivel Work?

The Swivel app receives alerts based on your phone’s location, your addresses of interest and user settings. When the authorities or key community stakeholders send out an alert:

You will receive alerts based on your settings, such as incident radius and selected incident categories.

Your Swivel app will add alerts to the list of incidents and plot them on the map.

If the incident is near a chosen address of interest, it will notify you based on your settings.

What Does Swivel Track?

Nothing.

In fact, we don’t even know who you are. Your address, and chosen My Spaces and addresses of interest, are associated with your phone. We don’t have any records associating your phone with you.

Our goal is to provide you with a functional tool that will help to keep you safe. This goal is shared by the police authority and any participating key community stakeholders. We all support a whole-of-society approach to public safety and well-being, without compromising your privacy rights or civil liberties.

The Swivel solution is truly a whole-of-society approach to public safety that engages a variety of key community stakeholders.

Many organizations in the community are expected to use the Swivel solution to keep their audiences aware – key community stakeholders such as:

Schools

Public Housing

Places of Worship

County, Regional and
Municipal Buildings
and Facilities

Public Works

Transportation Hubs

University and
College Campuses

Hospital Campuses and
Medical Clinics

Private Sector Buildings
and Facilities

Sporting and
Entertainment Venues

Mobile and
Remote Workers

Utilities

Public Transit

Government and
Other Sector
Buildings/Facilities

Business Improvement
Areas and Districts

Business Parks

Conferences, Festivals
and Special Events

Everyone has a role to play in public safety! ^TM