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Neighbors App Partnership

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Tampa Police Department has partnered with the creators of the Neighbors app to help Tampa residents use new technology and old-fashioned neighborhood pride to help keep their communities safe.

The Neighbors app enables you to monitor neighborhood activity, share crime and safety related videos and photos, and receive real-time safety alerts from your neighbors and Tampa Police. The app is being called the “new Neighborhood Watch,’’ and is being used in communities across the nation. The app was created by Ring, the makers of security devices, including the Ring Doorbells that have figured prominently in TPD investigations in recent years.

How It Works

  • Download the Neighbors app 
  • Opt-in to join your neighborhood.
  • Customize the geographic area you want to receive notifications for (users must verify where they are located and can only participate in their neighborhood).
  • Receive real-time alerts from your neighbors, TPD, and the Ring Neighbors team that inform of crime and safety alerts as they happen.
  • View local crime and safety posts via a live feed or interactive map.
  • Share text updates, photos and videos taken on any device, including Ring’s home security devices.

 

RING Neighbors FAQs

Neighbors users can choose whether to share their Ring videos publicly and with law enforcement in the app. 

Tampa Police can view the publicly available content in the Neighbors app and request content in a specific area where a crime or other incident may have occurred.

The Neighbors app lets you easily share and communicate with your neighbors and local law enforcement about crime and safety so you have real-time, local crime data at your fingertips. It enables users to stay on top of crime and safety alerts as they happen.

Not directly. Tampa Police can only see posts that users share publicly; TPD does not have direct access to users’ devices, video or data. But, when users choose to share video or data with TPD, Neighbors makes it easier and faster.

Neighbors enables Tampa Police to:

  • Share important crime and safety updates with local communities in real-time; 
  • Request information about local crime and safety situations from Neighbors who opt-in to sharing for a particular request; 
  • Work together with the local community to build trust and make neighborhoods safer.

No. If you have evidence of a crime or suspicious behavior, you should still report it to police.

Yes, Neighbors posts are shareable with other major social networks. We encourage users to share crime posts through various networks to increase awareness of local incidents and help identify criminals acting in the area.

No. All videos, images, and text can be uploaded and posted to Neighbors. Videos from all cameras can be uploaded.