Bull Horns Panic Button
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About Bull Horns Panic Button
Allows you to instantly alert your community, security company or the police to come and help you. As seen on national television. Ideal for use by Community Policing Forums (CPF) and Neighbourhood Watches in South Africa.
Sends your emergency contacts your location by SMS and, if your security company partners with us, they can see your exact location in real-time. You can also add and receive local crime and suspicious activity reports. This app only uses GPS and data when it is open and being used.
- in an emergency, your emergency contacts receive an SMS notification with your location. We (or your security company if they partner with us) can also remotely track your location in real-time, even if you can't speak or are on the move.
- your phone will call the emergency number you selected.
- activate the panic with just one press from your earphones or your Android Wear smart watch (beta).
- receive notifications of crimes or suspicious activities near to you.
- easily report crimes and suspicious activities and automatically notify people in your community.
- view crime locations and hotspots on a map.
- allow us to track your location if you are going into a situation you are nervous about.
- record audio with one touch (to, for example, record an official soliciting a bribe).
- upload a "selfie" photo to help the police or your security company recognise you in an emergency situation.
- the app has national emergency numbers of more than 150 countries pre-loaded.
- generate data to combat crime.
Powered by the Intelligence Bureau South Africa. This SOS app works anywhere in the world and is free. Help deter crime by utilising the power of the community to #crowdfight crime.
Please note we do not actively monitor or respond to panic or follow me activations. Your emergency contacts may or may not do so. If your security company partners with us they will receive alerts including a link to show your details and location and they may use this information to actively respond. The performance of third parties (including the police and security providers) is out of our control.
Frequently Asked Questions.
Why does the app require all these permissions?
Some app users are concerned about the number of permissions the app requires, which is especially obvious in Android 6 (Marshmallow). In general, the app only uses additional permissions when the user initiates specific activities where these are required. Here are the specific examples of how it uses the permissions:
Contacts - When you add emergency contacts, you can select them from your existing contacts.
Location - When you activate the panic button or the “Follow Me” button, the app can tell your contacts and security company (if they partner with us) where you are. It is also used when you want to add home location or location of crime alerts.
SMS - When you press the panic button it will send an SMS to your emergency contacts showing your location. It will also send SMSes to contacts when you cancel the alert.
Phone - To make phone call to your emergency contact when you press the panic button.
Photos/Media/Files - So you can add a photo of yourself (at registration) or a crime (when adding an alert). The app never does this in the background - you must initiate this.
Microphone - To record audio when you press the “Record Audio” button only.
Data - The main way the app uses data is when you press the panic button or follow me button (to send a small data alert to the backend database), at registration and adding crime alerts (to save details to the database), to use the map (e.g. to find your home location or crime locations) or to use the online shop.
Identity - So Google Play knows who has downloaded it and so users can access across devices.
Device ID and call information - Device ID so we can synchronise your app details if, for example, you delete the app and re-install it.
Please email info@appdeveloperstudio if you have further questions.
Sends your emergency contacts your location by SMS and, if your security company partners with us, they can see your exact location in real-time. You can also add and receive local crime and suspicious activity reports. This app only uses GPS and data when it is open and being used.
- in an emergency, your emergency contacts receive an SMS notification with your location. We (or your security company if they partner with us) can also remotely track your location in real-time, even if you can't speak or are on the move.
- your phone will call the emergency number you selected.
- activate the panic with just one press from your earphones or your Android Wear smart watch (beta).
- receive notifications of crimes or suspicious activities near to you.
- easily report crimes and suspicious activities and automatically notify people in your community.
- view crime locations and hotspots on a map.
- allow us to track your location if you are going into a situation you are nervous about.
- record audio with one touch (to, for example, record an official soliciting a bribe).
- upload a "selfie" photo to help the police or your security company recognise you in an emergency situation.
- the app has national emergency numbers of more than 150 countries pre-loaded.
- generate data to combat crime.
Powered by the Intelligence Bureau South Africa. This SOS app works anywhere in the world and is free. Help deter crime by utilising the power of the community to #crowdfight crime.
Please note we do not actively monitor or respond to panic or follow me activations. Your emergency contacts may or may not do so. If your security company partners with us they will receive alerts including a link to show your details and location and they may use this information to actively respond. The performance of third parties (including the police and security providers) is out of our control.
Frequently Asked Questions.
Why does the app require all these permissions?
Some app users are concerned about the number of permissions the app requires, which is especially obvious in Android 6 (Marshmallow). In general, the app only uses additional permissions when the user initiates specific activities where these are required. Here are the specific examples of how it uses the permissions:
Contacts - When you add emergency contacts, you can select them from your existing contacts.
Location - When you activate the panic button or the “Follow Me” button, the app can tell your contacts and security company (if they partner with us) where you are. It is also used when you want to add home location or location of crime alerts.
SMS - When you press the panic button it will send an SMS to your emergency contacts showing your location. It will also send SMSes to contacts when you cancel the alert.
Phone - To make phone call to your emergency contact when you press the panic button.
Photos/Media/Files - So you can add a photo of yourself (at registration) or a crime (when adding an alert). The app never does this in the background - you must initiate this.
Microphone - To record audio when you press the “Record Audio” button only.
Data - The main way the app uses data is when you press the panic button or follow me button (to send a small data alert to the backend database), at registration and adding crime alerts (to save details to the database), to use the map (e.g. to find your home location or crime locations) or to use the online shop.
Identity - So Google Play knows who has downloaded it and so users can access across devices.
Device ID and call information - Device ID so we can synchronise your app details if, for example, you delete the app and re-install it.
Please email info@appdeveloperstudio if you have further questions.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
New security partners.
Historic crime map.
Bug fixes.
New security partners.
Historic crime map.
Bug fixes.
Version update Bull Horns Panic Button was updated to version 3.2
Version update Bull Horns Panic Button was updated to version 2.4
More downloads Bull Horns Panic Button reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
More downloads Bull Horns Panic Button reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
What are users saying about Bull Horns Panic Button
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Great app. A little confusing as the new crimes are no distinctly marked. Suggest older crimes are not coloured the same as the newest. They could perhaps be black after 24 hours and the latest crimes shown as red figures
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If i were confronted with a situation I wount be able to use the app because there wont be time to unlock my phone find the app open it and then pressing the panic button. Then having to confirm it. Big problem I am running or dead by then. Need to activate pannic with phone button pressing repeatedly and the NO No confirmation. Otherwise no use the i can not use it
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Quite impressed! Only complaint is that my security company tells me about incidents which do not show on the app. Plenty crime here but only old incidents are shown. But I have spread the word and another two households have downloaded.
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Add panic button as a screen saver, seach funtion on contact list,shake phone when in danger.
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Received a notification of a panic close to me, and then I couldn't find out further info. Nothing on the map either. And why have hundreds of incidents saved when most are over 2 months old?
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If only old alerts could be removed it would be great. Clogging up map.
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Unable to forward map alerts to PCF groups. Otherwise very good app
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Please differentiate between latest and older crimes with other colour. Really frustrating to click on each crime to find latest date.
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Just a thought, remove the loading screen from the app. When a person is in trouble, there should be no delays in opening the app.
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I find it difficult to find & view the latest alert amoungst all the other old alerts still on the app.
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Think it's a great app and glad I have it on my phone. Nice to be kept updated about what's happening in your area. Have not had to use the panic button yet and hope I never have to but glad it's there.
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This is a fantastic App I am project manager for our panic system with the Ramsgate Community Police Forum and we offer this app to all residents.
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I just worry abouy having to unlock my phone
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I find the description of the crime limited in information
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I had the app installed some time ago and all parties received the sms's. However, when I opened the app this morning, I had to reinstall it?
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It's good especially for the family. Anything could happen
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Great app. It would be great if newest alert is a different colour than the older ones.
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Is there a way to remove alerts from map
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Great app. Just need to fix the issue with searching for street names and numbers.
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I believe it's helpful to fight crime.
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Nice to have someone that will respond quickly
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Great app
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Love the app
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Awesome
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Nice
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This is a great app, but I think you should make an option where you can pull up the button by shaking the phone. Also, when you push the button I think there should be a timer that would automatically send the alert just in case you don't have time or are running and cannot press the conformation text as it is very small. Or perhaps another button pops up that you have to press three times in rapid succession.
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Would like to use the app before I review the rating and recommend to others. My service provider, Smhart Alarms, is not on the list.
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I have just this minute joined so I do not know how it will work and therefore cannot do a review.
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Great app. Screenshots on app store look more user friendly than my android version though.
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Great app. Good to know what is going on in our area.
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Great idea but just received notification of another Bull Horns user near me who activated her panic and had no idea what to do. I think the app should have given me the lady's number + her emergency contacts + saps must know who you are and there should be some protocol in place for something like this.
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Brilliant concept. Would be great (my opinion) if 3 buttons were offered (dodgy / serious / life-threatening). Just picturing myself panicked because my kid hears barking at home / wife runs out of petrol.
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Great plan and idea I just feel the data issue is a problem,what if you don't have data?what if some people can't afford data?why can't there a way for allerting your loved ones,police through a 911 free center or something!? Please work on that please!the kidnapping issue is becoming a problem in our country please
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This app is amazing but it would be sooooooooo much better if you could have widgets on your home screen. I still recommended this to people who live in dodgy areas
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App OK. Just difficult to identify most recent incidents reported. Perhaps you can consider option to highlight most recent incident on map.
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With crime being so rampant, this App certainly gives one tremendous peace of mind. It's a wonderful App, which I highly recommend. Great job, guys
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Fantastic app. Is there an option to put the panic button on your home screen? Not the actual app shortcut.
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Haven't used it yet, but I'm hoping it works... it seems like a pretty great idea!! Bigups if it works as specified.
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Great app. I live in an area that has been recently a hot spot for kidnapping, especially women, so this app is what I need!
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Hello, The only question I have. Does it play a sound/siren on activating? Also the fact you need to confirm the panic button after activating it is a bit irritating. Other than that it works well. Regards, Jamie Buzzeo (Founder & CEO of DuB_ZillA Records & Buzzin' Records)