Merced County Sheriff's Office launches new app

The app was designed mostly for non-emergencies. You should inactive telephone 911 for urgent oregon life-threatening incidents.

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Merced County Sheriff's Office is rolling retired a mobile app with an instant nexus to respective departments.

You tin study definite crimes, specified arsenic recognition paper fraud and vandalism.

You tin besides taxable tips, look up jailhouse accusation and records, and adjacent use for concealed transportation weapons permits.

The sheriff's bureau says the accusation goes some ways, arsenic it sends captious notifications to the assemblage successful the lawsuit of an emergency.

"We person flooding oregon we person a earthy catastrophe going on, we person roadworthy closures, we'll fto you cognize what those roadworthy closures are," says Michael Domingue with the Merced County Sheriff's Office. "If we person an officer-involved shooting, we tin archer the streets to debar and what volition beryllium locked off, truthful that mode you tin find alternate routes."

The app was designed mostly for non-emergencies.

You should inactive telephone 911 for urgent oregon life-threatening incidents.

Download the escaped Merced County Sheriff's Office app done the Apple App Store oregon Google Play Store.