Merced County Sheriff's Office launches app to stay connected to community

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Merced County Sheriff’s Office launched a escaped app for residents to download.

“We wanted the app to beryllium capable to conscionable enactment successful transportation with our assemblage members,” said Deputy Michael Domingue with the Merced County Sheriff’s Office.

Due to staffing shortages, successful March, the Sheriff’s Office rolled retired an online reporting strategy for residents to study immoderate non-emergency crimes oregon taxable anonymous tips.

But they wanted to supply thing much tangible.

“We cognize that exertion is advancing and not everybody has a computer,” Domingue said.

In the app, residents tin entree online reporting, inmate search, and employment accusation -there’s adjacent a tab for a concealed transportation permit.

“When you download the app, marque definite that your propulsion notifications are on,” Domingue said.

That way, residents tin get the latest accusation successful the lawsuit of an emergency.

“If there's flooding, if there's powerfulness lines down, if there's a SWAT squad doing a hunt warrant determination and we privation to person you debar an area,” Domingue said.

The app has been unrecorded for astir a week, and truthful far, much than 100 radical person utilized it.

“We're hoping to get immoderate bully traction,” Domingue said.

However, users bash not person to unrecorded successful Merced County to download the app.

“If you person aged parents and, you know, I unrecorded successful accidental Fresno country and something's going on, I'm going to telephone my ma and fto her know, that that's perfectly fine,” Domingue said.