17
Sep
2013
By Calvin at 08:30 GMT, 12 years ago
A mobile phone application designed to help people stay safe in Aberdeen has scooped a national award.
The Safer Aberdeen app, which contains a broad range of safety tips and advice, as well as information about where to get help and advice when you need it, took the Innovative Media Campaign prize at the National Safer Communities Awards.
The awards celebrate the vital work public, private and third sector organisations undertake to make Scotland a safer place to live, work and visit.
Safer Aberdeen is a specially developed council-led initiative focussing on crime prevention. The Safer Aberdeen team created the app for those who like enjoy a good night in Aberdeen and crammed it with useful tips and advice to help users get the most from their night out and most of all stay safe.
The app provides community safety messages in an easily accessible, readily at hand format. Amongst other things it:
- encourages sensible use of alcohol and promotes an ethos of looking after each other on a night out
- reduces incidents of assault caused by excessive use of alcohol
- promotes and encourages the use of safe transport routes home
- provides advice and support links regarding domestic abuse
- promotes and guides vulnerable people to where to find and use taxi marshals, street pastors, pissoirs and night time bus ranks
- provides an easy to use alcohol units calculator
- provides fire safety message about frying food after using alcohol and
- promotes the city's Best Bar None Award winning licensed premises
The app is free to download for Apple and Android devices.
Safer Aberdeen Website: http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/community_life_leisure/crime_prevention/safer_aberdeen/saf_safer_aberdeen.asp
Safer Aberdeen Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/SaferAberdeen
