New SOS * UK - Text service on buses to alert police to trouble
An emergency text service to let passengers alert police to trouble on buses without putting themselves in danger could go live in LondonLondon,England,UK -This is London/Evening Standard, by Katharine Barney -21 Jan 2008: -- ... The pioneering scheme would allow travellers to raise the alarm discreetly and without being spotted by troublemakers and criminals who might otherwise turn on them... The scheme would work by giving individual buses their own code letters, which would be advertised on posters around the bus... If trouble flares all a passenger would have to do would be to type the letter in and send it to a dedicated text number. This would alert the police, who would be also able to identify which bus the distress signal was made from and where the bus was... (Knife killer: CCTV footage of Anthony Joseph, who killed bus passenger Richard Whelan in 2005)
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