Mountainside Police Launching New Community Information Service Through NIXLE

The Borough of Mountainside New Jersey Police Department is launching a new community information service designed to deliver important and timely information to residents in our area using the latest technology through Nixle’s “Municipal Wire.”

Nixle’s “Municipal Wire” is the first standardized, secure, and certified communication platform for local police departments, to communicate important, neighborhood-level information to the residents of their communities.  Nixle’s “Municipal Wire” is available at no cost to residents or the police department, and uses the same compelling model as social applications, such a Twitter and Facebook, while adding the security that is critical to ensure information received by its users is trusted and accurate.  Residents receive all information immediately by text message, email or web. If you choose to receive text messages via your cellular phone, standard text messaging rates may apply if you do not have an unlimited texting plan.

There are four types of messages that Nixle will be used for; Alerts (crimes, missing persons or emergency type messages), Advisories (less urgent need-to-know information), Community Information (day to day neighborhood to community-level information), and Traffic (localized traffic information). You can limit the number of text messages you receive by having urgent messages sent to your cell phone and other less important messages such as community information sent to your e-mail.

Subscribers can also receive notifications from two additional locations throughout the country. This feature allows Mountainside residents to stay informed with community notifications from other locations that are relevant to them such as where their children attend school, where other family members live, where they work or own additional properties.

Nixle’s “Municipal Wire” is built exclusively for Federal, State, County, and Municipal governments, as well as local police departments, fire departments and emergency service agencies with a need to communicate neighborhood-level information.  The government communication platform will not be commingled with any advertising or other content.  Nixle’s “Municipal Wire” will always be a separate and secure service with no advertising attached.

The Mountainside Police Department encourages you to subscribe to Nixle so you can receive community information quickly and accurately. To sign up for Nixle simply go to www.nixle.com and follow the directions. If you have any questions regarding this program, please call Lieutenant Allan Attanasio of the Mountainside Police Department at 908-232-2400 extension 233.