Following the shocking murder of Sarah Everard by a British police officer who abducted her while using his powers, English Home Secretary Pretty Patel announced over the weekend that she would promote an initiative that would set up a special center to allow women to make sure their location was known to law enforcement. The British.
This is an initiative of the telecom company BT that will allow women who want to make sure that something stays with them on the line or follows their movement until they reach their destination safely.
According to the "Daily Mail", HaMoked, which will actually be a cell phone app where you can enter the address the woman is going to, will allow her to create an update in advance that she is leaving and fears that she may be in danger.
Before setting off, she can call the special number 888 or indicate in the app what the destination is and how soon she is expected to reach it, and then the location of her cell phone will be constantly monitored by the police via GPS.
In addition, the app will continue to send her messages to make sure she is okay until she reaches her destination.
If it does not respond to these messages, the police will receive an emergency alert.
Although it has not yet been decided what the special format of this hotspot is, the intention is to launch it as early as this coming Christmas.
As a reminder, on March 3, Officer Wayne Cousins arrested Everard for non-compliance with Corona's directives.
After handcuffing her, he put her in his car, raped her, and strangled her to death using his police belt.
After the murder he burned her body and dumped what was left on a lake in Kent County, more than 100 miles from the capital. After a manhunt for him he was caught and confessed to acts, which were also recorded on public cameras.
Following the incident, London police are under increasing scrutiny and there are calls for the dismissal of police chiefs, as well as calls for women to refuse to cooperate with police for fear of being abducted.