{"id":1568,"date":"2021-08-26T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2021-08-26T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:47:13","slug":"new-omnilert-app-connects-troy-university-students-directly-to-university-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/08\/26\/new-omnilert-app-connects-troy-university-students-directly-to-university-police\/","title":{"rendered":"New Omnilert app connects Troy University students directly to University Police."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/student-resources\/campus-safety\/\">Troy University Police<\/a> have introduced a new app that puts the ability to connect directly to officers patrolling the campus in the palm of every student&#8217;s hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Omnilert app will allow <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> students to be able to instantly contact any officers on duty through the push of a button. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Omnilert app is a new emergency app that we&#8217;re encouraging all the students to add onto their phone,&#8221; says Troy University Police Officer Rachel Farmer. &#8220;We do have emergency call stations located on each quad and in different places around campus. This is basically that on your phone. There is a button that you hit if you feel in danger it&#8217;ll instantly call and it&#8217;ll send us your location.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the application does not just serve as an emergency pole at student&#8217;s fingertips but rather it holds multiple features that could benefit both the university and the general community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There&#8217;s also another feature on there which is a texting anonymous,&#8221; says Farmer.  &#8220;If you feel uncomfortable and you&#8217;re walking and you can&#8217;t get on the phone to literally pick it up and say listen someone&#8217;s following me you can text it and keep walking and get to somewhere safe that way that text message will come through.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Omnilert app is available on both Apple App Store and Google Play Store. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For assistance setting up the app you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/helpdesk.troy.edu\/TDClient\/1924\/Portal\/KB\/ArticleDet?ID=134180\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full story watch Xada&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy University Police have introduced a new app that puts the ability to connect directly to officers patrolling the campus in the palm of every student&#8217;s hands. <\/p>\n<p>The new Omnilert app will allow Troy University students to be able to instantly contact any officers on duty through the push of a button. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/08\/26\/new-omnilert-app-connects-troy-university-students-directly-to-university-police\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[607,606,519,194],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-omnilert","tag-rachel-farmer","tag-troy-university-police","tag-xada-ingram"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}