COURT HOUSE — Middle Township Police and CrimeReports.com have announced a new on-line crime alerting and mapping service that provides easy to read incident crime maps and automated alerts to the citizens of Middle Township.

According to a release, the service, located at http://www.crimereports.com or directly from the Middle Township Police Department Web site, http://www.middletownship.com, provides neighborhood crime data in near real-time and is available now.

The CrimeReports service is free to the public and allows citizens to receive automatic daily, weekly or monthly email alerts if/when crimes occur near their home, office, local school, etc.

Citizens can also view reported crime activity on an easy to use map for any location within Middle Township boundaries. Crime incident data is updated nightly and includes:

• Incident type

• Date

• Location

• Distance from citizen’s address

• Event identification/case number

• Brief crime incident description

“CrimeReports.com will prove particularly valuable to those in the community who want to stay informed about what is going on in their neighborhoods and empower citizens to work with the police department to address neighborhood crime issues.” stated Chief Joseph Evangelista.

“By participating in CrimeReports.com, the Middle Township Police Department is demonstrating its commitment to service and safety by making crime information available to the citizens of Middle Township,” said Greg Whisenant, co-founder and CEO of Public Engines, which makes the CrimeReports.com application.

“Chief Evangelista and the Middle Township Police Department staff are forward-looking, providing timely, location specific information to the public when they need it,” he concluded.