Receive Verona Police Alerts with Nixle System

The Verona Police Department will utilize a new communications service, effective Nov. 2, that allows it to send important, valuable community information directly to residents using the latest technology.

The Nixle Community Information Service allows us to create and publish messages to be delivered to subscribed residents instantly via cell phone text message and/or email. Notifications can also be accessed online at Nixle’s web site at www.nixle.com.

Messages may include weather emergency warnings, road closures, missing persons and other relevant safety and community event information.

“Our efforts at reaching out to people via email have been very successful so far.  Utilizing the Nixle system brings us to the next level by reaching people while they are on the go via their cell phones”, says Captain Mitchell Stern.  “The service is secure, reliable and easy to use for our department”.

The messages can be sent specifically to residents registered within a ¼ mile radius, giving them the opportunity to receive trustworthy information relevant only to their neighborhood. Residents decide from which local agencies they want to receive information. Subscribers can also choose the way in which alerts are received, whether it is by email, text message, or over the web.

Nixle builds on the foundations of other public-to-public communication services, such as Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, but adds a key component: security. When citizens receive information from our agency via Nixle, they know it can be trusted.

Residents of Verona, and those in neighboring communities can immediately begin receiving pertinent information via text message, email, and web by registering at www.nixle.com.  

“We are very excited to have you experience it for yourself”, Stern added.