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An online tool aimed at notifying Saskatchewan residents about crime is expanding earlier than expected.

At the Western Development Museum on Thursday, Saskatchewan RCMP announced they will dispatch the Crime Watch Advisory Network across the province. They said about 5,500 people signed up in the first month for the program, which delivers information about crimes from the RCMP directly to Saskatchewan residents’ phones and email accounts.

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“The quicker we can get information out, the quicker we can get assistance from the public,” said Mark Fisher, Commanding Assistant Commissioner for the Saskatchewan RCMP.

Launched in March in Saskatchewan’s southern region, the tool is now available to central and northern residents. Notifications come from any of the 137 RCMP detachments in the province. People can sign up for notifications through the provincial government website or through the Everbridge app, selecting which detachments they’d like to send them alerts.