Vocal Ltd - Award Winning Updates to the Leeds Alert Scheme

On September 23rd 2008, Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Police, in affiliation with Vocal Ltd, are captivation a chargeless accident at the Banqueting Suite of Leeds Civic Hall to advance acquaintance of the anew upgraded ‘Leeds Alert’ Scheme for businesses aural the city-limits centre.

The Leeds Alert Scheme allows business subscribers to accept basic advice absolute from the Police in the accident of emergency incidents such as terrorism, flooding, gas explosions, astringent weather, beef demonstrations or incidents affecting the carriage network. Leeds Alert subscribers can accept the bulletin via a array of methods including SMS adaptable argument messaging or email. To date the arrangement has acclimated acquaint to businesses of a ample amount of incidents including abeyant calamity in January 2008, a gas access alfresco St James Hospital in April 2008 and a baleful alley cartage abstract on the city-limits centre bend alley in July 2008.

The event, to be captivated from 9:30am until midday on 23rd September, will advance the accent of Emergency Planning and Business Continuity aural Leeds City Centre and there will be bedfellow speakers including assembly from West Yorkshire Police, Leeds City Council’s Peace and Emergency Planning Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Vocal Communications Ltd; the providers of the Leeds Alert Scheme. Vocal will accurately outline the improvements to the Leeds Alert scheme.

Roger Carter, Principal Emergency Planning Officer at Leeds City Council said:
“Leeds Alert has been in abode for over 3 years now and has been a actual able adventure administration apparatus for the Police and the Council. The advancement of the arrangement to Vocal’s new iModus messaging belvedere allows for the befalling to advance added acquaintance of city-limits centre evacuations affairs and seek renewed absorption from all businesses in Leeds whether small, average or large.”

Ben Howard, Marketing Manager at Vocal added:
“iModus, the technology abaft the upgraded Leeds Alert Scheme won ‘Most Innovative Product of the Year’ at the 2008 Business Continuity Awards and at this accident we’ll be analogue the added allowances of the upgraded system. This includes a casting new defended online appointment area Leeds businesses can allotment Business Continuity advice and best convenance with anniversary other.”

Spaces at the accident are bound and are on aboriginal come, aboriginal served base so if you are a business aural Leeds and would like to appear amuse appointment www.warnandinform.com/leeds/upgradeevent to annals your details.

This accident is organised by Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Police in assocation with Vocal Ltd.

Vocal Ltd
Vocal House
870 The Crescent
Colchester Business Park
Colchester
Essex
CO4 9YQ

Ben Howard
0870 727 0350