The SafeZone technology makes it easy for officers to communicate with individual users directly and silently if needed – and lets Texas A&M University-San Antonio Police Department share information, alerts and warnings with other individuals and groups in specific locations across the campus.
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.
SafeZone was brought in by NUPD in 2016 as part of a new strategy targeting greater safety awareness and incident prevention. The mobile and web-enabled safety app was seen as being a great fit and is now available for anyone to raise an alert or report something including third-party vendors.
Northumbria University is home to almost 32,000 students and staff and was the first university in Europe to adopt SafeZone®. The service is now used across all its Newcastle facilities, central London campus and a new recently announced Amsterdam site.
Heriot-Watt University has been named as International University of the Year by “The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018”. It was the first British university to open a campus in Dubai where it now has almost 5,000 students and staff; and its Malaysia campus has around 3,000 students.
The University of Kent is a leading UK university producing world-class research, rated internationally as excellent and leading the way in many fields of study…
Swansea University implemented SafeZone in September 2016 to cover its two campuses, seven other sites frequented by staff and students, transit corridors to specific accommodation areas, and for use on international field trips.
University of York was one of the first UK universities to recogniZe SafeZone’s potential to bring existing security and other services together onto one simple platform. The app is now used widely by the university community and accepted as part of everyday life.
The University of South Australia is a well-respected, globally focused and locally engaged university with 32,000 students and staff. However, with six campuses dispersed across a distance of 800km, supporting round-the-clock security in a rapidly changing campus-use culture posed significant challenges.