Category: Safety

Q – Why get involved?
A – So you can get to know your neighbors and make your neighborhood more secure.

Q – How to do this?
A – Talk to them, look out for each other.

More ideas:

• Learn the names of your neighbors nearby.
• Write them down on the chart below, along with their cell phone numbers. (will post chart soon)
• Get to know something about them, a hobby, their kids’ names.
• Join the Albion NextDoor program at NextDoor.com.
• NextDoor will invite your neighbors for you.
• Later, your neighbors may help watch your house when you are away.
• NextDoor.com has other ideas including car pooling, help with missing pets
• Get notices from Albion Public Safety by signing up at Nixle.com [expand title=”See More” swaptitle=”Close”]The Albion Department of Public Safety has partnered with Nixle in order to provide more timely information to the community. By using Nixle ADPS will be able to message the community through a variety of platforms all at the same time. A Nixle message will be posted to the Department’s Facebook page, the Department’s NEW Twitter account, through email and by text alert. You as a recipient can sign up through Nixle and choose the way you receive your messages including 3 different levels of messaging. The three levels are Alert, Advisory and Community. With Nixle, you can choose how you receive each of these message levels. For instance, you can receive Alert messages through text while only getting Advisory and Community messages in your email. You can also chose not to sign up for Nixle and only get the messages on Facebook and/or Twitter. Nixle also allows for anonymous information to be sent to ADPS about incidents and crimes. It is my hope we can provide everyone in the community with timely information to incidents that affect all of us. The command staff at ADPS is dedicated to getting you the information as soon as possible, but at times it will be difficult for officers in the field to take the time to notify the community while actively involved in the incident. We are working to implement the use of Nixle as quickly as possible. The service is active and you can sign up for alerts that will be put out through Nixle effective immediately. The number of messages sent though Nixle will increase as the command staff receives training on the use of Nixle and what information needs to be sent out. I hope everyone finds this service to be helpful and please feel free to provide feedback or ask questions about the service. Please share the information about Nixle with family and friends in Albion who might not otherwise receive this letter.
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• You can also submit an anonymous tip to Albion Public Safety thru Nixle here
• More information is at: AlbionMich.net/general

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You can also get Nixle alerts from the Calhoun County Sheriff’s office. These are usually about weather, although there was also an earthquake alert not long ago.  These messages might come in a little earlier than the Albion alerts.  Here is the page about past Sheriff alerts.  You can also text your ZIP CODE to 888777 for mobile alerts as explained on the same link.