Imagine Uber but for ordering a private security force directly to your location.
According to leaked emails obtained by Vice, Citizen, the neighborhood watch app where people can report local incidents, is testing that exact concept out.
The internal emails detail a product described as “security response.” Citizens users would be able to request a private security team straight to their doorstep. That team would be made up of individuals from a third party contracted by Citizen.
Sources familiar with the service, including former Citizen employees, told Vice that the company had been “actively testing the program” in order to improve the speediness of the response times and the communication between Citizen and the third-party security firm. Read more…
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Source : The Citizen app is testing a service that lets people order private security on demand, leaks show
