The federal government has launched the Nigeria internal
security and public safety alerts system (NISPSAS) mobile application for
sending alerts to security agencies.
According to a statement on Thursday, Rauf Aregbesola, the
minister of interior, inaugurated the app at the ministry’s headquarters.
The minister said many attacks would have been foiled if the
security agencies had been notified in real time, adding that this prompted the
development of a platform that the public can use to communicate with security
agencies.
“One noticeable lacuna is information and timely alert of
the security agencies to incidents of crimes, breach of security, and natural
disasters before they happen or while they are going on. In most cases, they
would have been prevented or mitigated if the alert had come in time,” he said.
“As part of the
response to this challenge, the ministry of interior has therefore developed an
application, a technological innovation that works with the smart mobile phone
or any other device with Android or IOS capability, to send alerts to all
security agencies in real time.
“The initiative is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s
administration’s policy of making the security of lives and property of
Nigerians a priority.
“It is also part of the objective of leveraging on
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in doing government business and
operations.”
Aregbesola said the application is free to use for
Nigerians, adding that for now, it can only work on smart devices.
“The app utilises a combination of audio-visual and
geospatial location identification of the caller and scenes of incidents on the
ministry inter-agency situation room (MISR),” he said.
“It also works on the command and control centres,
dashboards of the four services, that is, immigration service, correctional
service, federal fire service, civil defence as well as police headquarters for
joint inter-agency operations.”
The app can be downloaded by searching for ‘NISPSAS’ on the
Android or iOS playstore.
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