Mount Pleasant Adds CityWatch System

ABC News Ch. 4

Wednesday, February 3rd
A hurricane is looming. A child is missing. There is flooding. A suspect is targeting your neighborhood. If this happens clear communication is critical for everyone.

The Mount Pleasant Police Department is equipped and has the resources necessary to provide information to the community through its’ CityWatch automated notification system. The system has been in place since 2002 and has been used for everything from evacuation notification, to solicitation for assistance in the location of a missing child.

CityWatch is an automated telephone system that can make simultaneous calls to households within the Town. The Department can record messages about situations to include instructions on what people need to do. Once an area is selected for calling the system will automatically telephone all published numbers within the area and deliver the message.

One of the problems facing the Department is the access to current telephone numbers of the Town’s residents. Since the system relies on the publicly available telephone number databases, private numbers and cellular numbers do not generally receive the important information. In an effort to improve information dissemination the Mount Pleasant Police Department is requesting those persons with telephone numbers they want included in the Departments database to contact Captain Amy McCarthy at: (843)884-4176 Email at McCarthy@townofmountpleasant.com.