The Santa Cruz Police Department uses the Code Red
Emergency Notification system through the Santa Cruz Regional 911 dispatch center
to notify community members of an active emergency situation.
With the growing trend of households giving up their
traditional landline phones and going completely cellular, we have found some
people are being left out of the information loop during these emergency
situations.
To help ensure you are not left out, the Santa Cruz Police
Department encourages community members to register their cell phones with the
Code Red Emergency Notification system and associate their cell phone numbers
with their residence or business.
On the home page, all you have to do is click on
“Register your Cellular or VOIP Phone for Code Red Emergency Notifications”.
That link will take you to a page where you list your name, address
(residential or business) and phone number. It’s that simple! To quickly and
easily register simply click here.
The Code Red Emergency Notification system also provides
a mobile app that can be downloaded onto your cell phone through the Apple
Store or the Google Play. The app provides a location-based multimedia alert
system. You will be required to activate your GPS services so the system can
send you alerts based on your location. Subscribers within the location of an alert issued
by a public safety organization using the Code Red Emergency Notification
system will receive alerts through this application.
Simply click here to begin the process to download the
mobile app either for an iphone or Android. Once you are on the home page, you click on “Code
Red” and that will take you to this page below. You can watch a video that
talks about how the system works and can begin the downloading process by
clicking “Code Red Mobile Alert app”. This will present the option of going to
the Apple Store or Google Play.
The Santa Cruz Police Department and the Santa Cruz
Regional 911 dispatch center strives to keep community members informed with
up-to-date public safety information and strongly suggests the community to
stay connected with valuable information. By going to either one of these
websites above, you can be connected either at home, work, or on the road. You
can also receive alerts through the Code Red Emergency Notification System
while in another jurisdiction that uses this same system.
