City of Cottonwood
NEWS
RELEASE
199 S. 6th
Street - cottonwood, az 86326
928.634.4246 www.cottonwoodpd.org
928.634.4246 www.cottonwoodpd.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 15, 2013
The City of Cottonwood Police and Utility Departments
proudly announce the deployment and full functionality of the Cottonwood
Emergency Notification System (CENS).
Developed by Inspiron Logistics, LLC., this technology provides a web
based platform for the purpose of
notifying our citizens of important or emergent public safety circumstances.
Residents may also be notified of utility outages and road closures using this
system.
Prior to this technology, public safety employees would have
to manually contact residents and businesses by telephone of an emergency in
their area. While receiving 9-1-1 calls
and updating responders during a major incident, it is virtually impossible to
contact each business and residence in the hazard zone in a timely manner.
Citizens and businesses with landline telephones will
receive CENS notifications utilizing the same data that allows 9-1-1 call
takers the ability to identify a 9-1-1 caller’s location. With the use of a digital map, public safety
officials will be able to select a notification zone and send messages to all
landline telephones within that zone. Residents and business occupants who do
not have a landline telephone are still able to receive emergency
notifications.
The City of Cottonwood website now includes a notification
sign-up portal which will allow citizens the option of signing up for
CENS. Notifications can be sent to home
phones, cell phones, email and pagers.
Citizens signing up for notifications may also opt to receive
non-emergency community notifications, such as road closures, temporary utility
outages, or weather alerts through NOAA.
If the internet is not a viable option for registering, CENS
notification opt-in forms will be available at all City of Cottonwood public
offices.
CENS will also be utilized for internal purposes to better
serve the community. CENS can be
utilized internally to quickly assemble officers and employees for deployment
to critical incidents. Similarly, the City of Cottonwood will be able to
quickly notify volunteers, such as TIP of AZ or our Citizens On Patrol (COP),
to respond to incidents.
For further
information in regard to CENS, please log onto the City website at www.cottonwoodaz.gov
or contact our Communications Supervisor, Marie Carpenter, at (928) 634-4246.
for
additional information contact: Commander
Gary Eisenga 634-4246
