Located just minutes from Manchester’s vibrant city centre, the University of Salford is a hub of contemporary learning and creativity. The University adopted CriticalArc’s SafeZone® technology as the best solution for student safety and wellbeing – and when two major emergencies occurred, the technology’s multiple functions within a unified platform proved invaluable in managing the incidents.
West Texas A&M University was already ranked as one of the safest places in the U.S. to attend college, but wanted to do more to enhance the security and wellbeing of students, faculty and staff.
To safeguard this community, the University of Arkansas Police Department (UAPD) reviewed available technologies for command and control, officer safety, emergency response, and managing special events. After a careful review, they selected CriticalArc’s SafeZone solution to help protect their campus community.
Head of Security Dan Nicoll confirmed that the bomb posed a genuine risk and instructed his control room team to implement a major incident response.
Day to day, SafeZone is not just used by security officers; students and staff can use it 24/7 to request emergency response or general assistance anywhere on campus.
With teaching and research facilities spread across nine locations in London and beyond, Imperial is home to more than 25,000 students and staff around the world. A solution was sought to help mitigate these risks and send targeted alerts to specific groups defined by location and user type.
SafeZone technology underpins the security team’s work by providing granular, geographically precise situational awareness of the first responders, and delivering high level command and control which enables officers to be dispatched to incidents much more quickly.
SafeZone provides detailed, geographically precise situational awareness for CQU first responders, improving their command and control capability and allowing officers to be dispatched to incidents much more quickly.
Because SafeZone is a cloud-based, scalable solution, it can be quickly and easily deployed in days vs. weeks. In the case of this leading institution, the customer was operational within 24 hours, which helped ease the stress of the public safety team.
Since 2016 the University of Queensland has been among the most committed advocates of SafeZone technology, using it to improve safety for over 52,000 students and 6,600 staff at three campuses.