The program is driven by a free, easy-to-use registration process. After logging into CrimeWeb first-time users simply click on “register” on the upper menu bar, establish a password and list the Email notification address to be used.  Any other personal information is optional.  For quick and easy registration for CrimeWeb notifications, click here.

The crime/public safety alerts are geographically-driven, and users are provided the option for receiving alerts in up to five zip code locations.  Thus, a user could be alerted on information in local home, work, school areas as well as monitoring information out of state for college students, parents, etc.  A mileage radius can be established by the user for reports within a radius of the selected zip code(s). The network is worldwide.

Alert categories include:  Missing Child, Missing Adult, Major Crimes, Homeland Security, School Information, Community Information.  

“Citizens act as extra eyes and ears for the Police Department, so an alert and cooperative neighborhood is our greatest single deterrent against crime,” said Plano Police Public Information Officer Rick McDonald.  “We encourage participation in CrimeWeb, which will help our citizens continue to partner with us in reducing the overall crime rate in their neighborhoods through awareness and participation.”

CrimeWeb is a uniquely designed web-based clearinghouse which allows information collected by public safety agencies nationwide to be quickly and efficiently distributed to citizens, news media organizations and other law enforcement agencies.  Each public safety agency (in this case, Plano) will enter alerts into CrimeWeb, which will then use a zip code system to allow subscribing agencies to distribute alerts anywhere in the country.  

This concept allows anyone in the community, who has subscribed, to instantly receive an alert via email.  Alerts are sent as they are received.  Plano Police will continue to disseminate crime/public safety information through their existing channels (Crime Watch areas, media, etc.).  CrimeWeb will enhance and broaden this on-going communication.

Plano has long recognized that building positive communications between police and residents creates the involved and aware community essential to an environment where serious crime can’t gain a foothold.  Involving our home and business residents in helping to identify problems of crime and disorder in their neighborhoods and developing solutions to prevent them, is an unbeatable deterrent to crime.  

For quick and easy registration for CrimeWeb notifications, click here.