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tip411 Launches New “INSIGHT” Capability with Customizable Digital Surveys to Facilitate Community Feedback for Law Enforcement Agencies

In response to renewed focus by law enforcement agencies across the country on building and maintaining meaningful relationships with the communities they serve, tip411 announced the launch of its newest product: tip411 INSIGHT.

In addition to its existing line of products that help law enforcement engage residents and community members of all ages, our newest product, tip411 INSIGHT provides innovative functionality that allows agencies to create unlimited customized surveys to gain essential insight on any and all topics on which they want their community’s feedback.

“We truly believe our new tip411 INSIGHT survey capability fills an important gap in many law enforcement agencies community engagement efforts,” said Terry Halsch, President of tip411. “It can be difficult to get honest feedback on officer interactions, department performance, and many other topics. This new tool makes it easy for departments to create and deploy surveys through their existing tip411 smartphone app, on their website, through social media, and more.”

With tip411 INSIGHT, agencies will be able to get community member’s opinions and feedback on topics like public perception of the agency, the agency’s effectiveness, interactions with officers, and specific, time-sensitive community issues.

tip411 INSIGHT features include:

  • Multiple survey question types, including text fields, checkbox, multiple choice, range scale, and more
  • Creation of unlimited survey questions for each survey
  • Easily editable drag and drop functionality to change the order of survey questions
  • Ability for respondents to remain anonymous if they prefer
  • Real-time response collection and results display
  • Spam prevention through ReCAPTCHA

“tip411 INSIGHT is really intuitive to use, just like the rest of tip411’s functionality and so much easier than other survey tools I’ve tried,” said Chief Jim Howarth of the Delhi Township Police Department in Cincinnati, Ohio. “I love that I can now use tip411 INSIGHT capability to conduct surveys as I believe it’s paramount that police departments reach out directly to their communities for feedback.”

Those interested in learning more are encouraged to visit www.tip411.com/tip411insight and schedule a short online demonstration.

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tip411 Community Engagement Innovation for Over 20 Years

tip411’s community engagement technology has come a long way since we attended our first IACP in Toronto in 2001. Over the past 20 years, we have listened to our customers’ needs, reacted to their feedback and developed innovative, industry leading, community engagement tools to better serve their departments and residents.

We’d like the opportunity to visit with you in New Orleans to discuss some of the new features and functionality we have added over the past 20 months:

We look forward to meeting you at Booth #2244 at IACP 2021. If you don’t have time, or won’t be there in person this year, click here to schedule an online demonstration with a member of our team to learn about how tip411 can mobilize, enhance, and improve your community engagement initiatives through cutting edge technology.

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tip411 an Important Tool for the Public & Law Enforcement to Protect Peaceful Protests & Bring Criminals to Justice

With protest, unrest, and unease gripping cities and towns across the US, many agencies and law-abiding citizens are feeling helpless in the face of violence and uncertainty.

tip411 is a simple and effective tool that both law enforcement and the public can rely on during this time and in the future. Law abiding citizens are turning to tip411 to communicate with their local jurisdictions in unprecedented numbers. In fact, over the last 7 days tip411 has seen a 250% increase in usage by law enforcement and the public. It can be quickly deployed and used to help keep communities safe from violent agitators trying to corrupt peaceful protests and bring looters to justice.

Departments can use tip411 to push information out via text message and email directly to subscribers in their community to:

  1. Communicate important and timely public safety information

  

2. Share messages from your chief or on behalf of the department and bypass the media’s filter

3. Ask for residents’ help in identifying those committing criminal acts in the name of protest movements

And residents can use tip411 to share information anonymously with law enforcement if they know of information that may lead to chaos among peaceful protestors, plans to damage property, or to help identify those who commit assaults against police or participate in looting or other crimes.

Let us help you help your communities. Contact us at info@tip411.com for more information today.

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Communicating Directly with Your Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The global coronavirus pandemic is affecting our world in a truly unprecedented manner.

We know that our partners in law enforcement are on the front line in our country’s effort to reduce the spread of the COVID-19. Our hearts go out to anyone who has been impacted directly by the virus.

During times like these, when direct contact with citizens is limited due to social distancing, the closure of public buildings, and more, we want you to know that tip411 is here to support your agency as you try to find ways to connect with your community.

One of the best, easiest, and most direct ways you can reach your residents and update them on important COVID-19 information in your community is by sending email and/or text alerts through tip411.

Learn how

Many agencies are already doing this, and you have the ability to as well.

But this doesn’t have to just be about public safety – You and your municipality can use tip411 as a way to communicate directly with residents on a host of topics in a safe and instant way.

We want to reassure you that tip411 is monitoring the situation closely so we can make sure that we are meeting the needs of our customers. 

Please visit our tip411 training page to watch a training video on how to create alerts if you need refresher on how it works.

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Apply for Grant Funding to Bring tip411 to Your Community’s Schools

$10,000,000 is currently up for grabs through a grant program to increase school safety and prevent school violence through the STOP School Violence Grant Program!  Specifically mentioned in the program description is the goal to:

Develop and implement threat assessment and/or intervention teams to operate technology solutions such as anonymous reporting systems for threats of school violence, including mobile telephone applications, hotlines, and websites. These teams must coordinate with law enforcement agencies and school personnel.

tip411 School Edition is uniquely positioned to satisfy this particular requirement and more. In fact, tip411 School Edition is the solution exclusively recommended by the Onondaga County, NY School Safety Task Force to help increase school safety.

Please reach out to us immediately if you are interested in applying so that we can assist you to the best of our abilities. The application deadline is March 3rd, 2020 with an implementation date of October 1st, 2020.