Map local crime on your iPhone

WESTFALL — On Monday the Eastern Pike Regional Police Department began using a new iPhone app (application), in partnership with CrimeReports to provide local crime mapping and national sex offender data. The Eastern Pike Regional Police Department already publishes their crime data on the National Crime Map at www.CrimeReports.com and are now making that data even easier to access through the CrimeReports iPhone app, which is newly available at the iTunes App Store. The CrimeReports iPhone app is free. “This information is vital to our citizens’ safety,” said Chief Chad Stewart “Providing it to the general public through a mobile device allows citizens even easier access to it than before. We’re pleased to be offering the most advanced tools available to foster communication and engagement with community members to prevent and reduce crime.” “The Eastern Pike Regional Police Department has already been a leader in citizen communication by sharing their crime data online at CrimeReports.com,” says Greg Whisenant, founder and CEO of CrimeReports. “Now they are equipped with another avenue through which to engage Matamoras and Westfall citizens to build a safer community.” In addition to local crime, the CrimeReports iPhone app also features crime data for more than 600 other law enforcement agencies across North America, and includes registered sex offender data for all 50 states. CrimeReports adds more than 50 agencies to its National Crime Map each month, so coverage is expanding quickly. For more about the new CrimeReports iPhone app, visit www.CrimeReports.com/iphone or www.eprpd.org .