The PBCPA are excited to announce the launch of the Buzzer App in the greater Bitou area
The PBCPA has launched the Buzzer App, a community and private response safety tool, across the greater Bitou area.
What is Buzzer:
Buzzer is a free app for you to use!
The Buzzer App is a community safety tool built specifically for both community and private response, it has been used with fantastic success around Cape Town, and seriously reduced not only the crime rate but also the noise of the WhatsApp groups.
How it works:
●Buzzer gives you a personal SOS button. All you need to do is hold down the SOS button in the app for 3 seconds (which prevents accidental activation). The app automatically geolocates your position and activates a response. You don’t need to type anything or say anything.
Within seconds our Control Room/s will contact you and our whole team of responders will be aware of the situation.
●The SOS and Report features also work in our green belts, parks, and most nearby areas that have cell phone signals. Great for hikers, walkers, and riders.
●Buzzer has a crime reporting function for crimes and suspicious activity – reporting directly to Plett Security and/or Smhart Security, as well as to your neighbours.
●When SOS or Report is pushed other Buzzer members in the area also get an alert and can then choose to respond to incidents. This is a very powerful feature. It means those closest can respond very quickly. It means you can also choose to join in if you are available (and able) to do so.
●Crime and medical emergencies can be dealt with appropriately.
●And, with each extra person on the app, we get more response capability and more “eyes and ears”. Stronger and safer together!
●Very powerful added extra: When you are in any other area that has Buzzer and you have a problem and call for help, you are connected to that particular area’s Control Room, responders and neighbours, to get you help where and when you need it.
Who can use Buzzer:
This app is for ANYONE AND EVERYONE! So please feel free to share it with friends, your family, your children, your employees! Great for Nanny when she takes the kids to the park or even your Airbnb guests to feel safer.
Download and Test:
Please download the app on the below link and please TEST it! PLEASE USE THE TEST BUTTON. You do this by clicking report and then choosing “Test”, this way only we get the test and not all your neighbours. Feel free to test (using the Test button) as many times as you like.
Download from the Apple App Store OR Download from Google Play
This app features cover the whole spectrum of community safety. As soon as an incident/concern is lodged, the caller can see who is responding and how far they are from the incident, no more sharing of useless information. eventually, emergency WhatsApp groups will become obsolete!
Security and Emergency Services:- SAPS, Fire, NSRI, Ambulances, Security Providers will received notification of the whole area, Neighbourhood Watch/Farm Watch/Safety Support groups will receive notifications from their dedicated zones
Stay Alert and be crimewise
Yours in security
Otto Olivier
PBCPA Operations Executive