New App Brings Tuscaloosa Police Department to Your Smartphone – Tuscaloosa Thread

The Tuscaloosa Police Department has introduced a new smartphone app for residents and visitors to stay in touch with them and much more.

The app is available now for both iPhones and Androids, meaning almost anyone with a modern mobile smartphone can download and use it.

Using the new tech, users can receive alerts directly from the police department about their operations in the area, and can also opt-in to receive other relevant public safety alerts, like warnings from the National Weather Service.

Parents can use the app to communicate directly with the school resource officer where their children are enrolled. Visitors can get traffic information and other alerts on home Gamedays. You can submit tips about crime in the city, search a list of sex offenders, and find a host of other resources directly in the app.

“This app will serve as an innovative way for the police department to connect with Tuscaloosa residents and visitors, providing information quickly and efficiently to anyone with a smartphone,” Chief Brent Blankley said in a statement.

The app boasts a clean user interface and TPD says it was made by a brand of OCV, LLC. aptly called ThePoliceApp.com, whose specialty is developing these apps for American law enforcement organizations

“Over 80 percent of people in the United States own and use smartphones as their primary means of communication,” OCV Partner and CRO Kevin Cummings said. “Mobile apps offer agencies a better way to alert, inform and prepare the public. Apps allow public safety agencies the ability to reach and serve their citizens where they are: their smartphones.”

The app, styled in the App Store as Tuscaloosa PD, is available for download now.