Motorola Solutions commissioned Goldsmiths, University of London to survey 12,000 citizens around the world about their views of public safety. The results, published in “Consensus for Change” show that the public has higher expectations than ever of public safety (70% say emergency services should be able to not only respond to emergencies but also predict risk) and wants to see greater use of advanced technologies.

74% of citizens agreed that using technology increases the productivity and effectiveness of emergency services

71% said that advanced technologies, such as video cameras, data analytics, cybersecurity and the cloud, are needed to address challenges of the modern world.

71% of citizens say public safety agencies need to be able to integrate fast and flexible systems to improve public safety outcomes.

Jolly: Motorola Solutions’ public safety solutions help police officers establish trust in their interactions with the public. Body-worn cameras (BWCs) clearly record the situation — Who cursed at whom? Who struck the first blow? — it’s all recorded so there’s no way to twist the truth. Video helps to build trust in communities by making interactions fully transparent. This allows everyone to feel safer. 

Jo: Successful community policing requires every stakeholder to play a part and contribute what they can to ensure safer cities, and Motorola Solutions plays an important role in this. We are the only company that can link up everyone and everything that matters in the right moment – from emergency dispatch to the officer in the field to the command center to collecting, analyzing, and efficiently accessing video, voice, data in a reliable and secure way. Being able to consistently build highly-reliable and intelligent end-to-end solutions that connect people with advanced technologies in order to create a safer, more secure world is what “Solving for safer” is all about.