PARKER — City-wide text alerts and DNA marked property could be available to the public soon.
Mayor Rich Musgrave gave council members an update on technology designed to improve the city’s neighborhood watch programs during Tuesday’s meeting.
“The police need eyes and ears out there in the community and that is what these provide,” Musgrave said.
The newest tech the city will be experimenting with is called “Cop Dot.”
“It’s a high-tech marking capability to mark your valuables,” Musgrave said.
Cop dot is a glue-type solution which contains thousands of dots containing DNA codes. The solution is applied to valuables, can be detected with infrared lights and then magnified to identify the owner.
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The second technology will give people the ability to receive alerts by phone, email or text. There are 18 to 20 notifications.
“If there’s a suspicious person in the neighborhood we could be notified via text,” Musgrave said. “It’s very flexible and gives residents the full control of being able to stipulate how they want to interface with the system.”
The program allows people who live within a designated area go online, sign up and choose on a case by case basis how they would like to be notified during alerts.
“I feel like as other law enforcement agencies get wind of what we’re doing over here in Parker, they are going to want to come over and tap [council members] brains,” Musgrave said.