Invite potential contributors.
Use incident location and participation rules to direct requests toward people who may have observations or media.
Police & public safety
Reach beyond the people
already known to the incident.
A useful witness or recording can be nearby without being obvious. We-Watch’s role is to help connect that information with the people responsible for follow-up.
Put context beside the media.
Collect accounts alongside incident time, location and category so contributions have a common reference point.
Fit the recipient’s process.
Confirm how information reaches the responsible service, who can access it and what acknowledgement participants should expect.
Designed to support existing work
Information gathering
with a defined operating model.
The service model includes email delivery to the police service responsible for the incident’s jurisdiction. A dedicated police dashboard or deeper integration can be explored as a separately scoped development.
We-Watch does not promise police attendance, emergency dispatch connectivity or a particular investigative outcome.
Questions for a deployment review
- Recipient workflowAccepted delivery channel, case references and operational ownership.
- Information accessVerified roles, moderator permissions and contributor identity visibility.
- Media handlingOriginal files, provenance, retention, permitted sharing and export.
- Public expectationsClear instructions for emergencies and official police reporting.
Measure the work that matters
Useful information.
Understandable effort.
A deployment should evaluate the time to a useful contribution, the proportion of requests that receive one, and the staff effort required to review and transfer material. Those measures are more informative than notification volume alone.
Technology is one part of the process. Participation, moderation capacity and recipient engagement determine whether the information becomes useful.
From local knowledge to useful information
Give each recipient a clearer starting point.
Witness and media collection.
The historical guide brings incident time, place, observations and supporting recordings into a reviewable summary. The intended value for public-safety partners is a more organized starting point for follow-up, subject to agreed access and delivery arrangements.
See the incident-information workflow ↗Police and insurance follow-up.
The pilot materials identify both police investigations and insurance claims as intended uses for incident information. Any future sharing process must establish who may disclose material, who receives it and what the recipient requires. Integration, acceptance and outcomes are not established by those historical materials.
Historical sources: draft User Instructions; pilot summary, 18 March 2024; pilot-partner letter, 19 November 2023. These describe the service concept and participant perspective, not independent evidence of investigative or claims outcomes.
Explore the fit with your existing process.
Tell us how your organization currently requests witnesses, gathers media and handles follow-up.