Officer terms and network rules

1. Personal account

Your personal OnSiren account follows you when you change employer, subject to eligibility and these terms. A personal account preserves continuing confidentiality, employment and data-protection duties. SIA verification creates no policing power or general disclosure entitlement.

Employer private-workspace access follows that workspace's authorised membership rules. Personal account continuity remains subject to the published service and eligibility rules.

2. Community safety purpose

Share first-hand factual observations of a specific safety risk. Explain what happened, when and where, the immediate safety concern and any uncertainty. The shared network excludes employer incident reports, shop CCTV, internal workplace records and copied watchlists.

These source restrictions govern the shared safety network. Separate workplace services require their own authorised purposes and instructions. The meaning of outside and any necessary content licence remain to be completed.

3. Audience and publication

The publication screen must identify the recipient categories and geographic audience before an alert is submitted for release. A qualifying alert can reach relevant officers and approved police, council, BID or other public-body functions only within the verified purpose and scope. Ordinary group voice chatter and its derivatives follow the group's authorised membership. Production controls for the proposed audience rule require verification.

4. Identifiable information

Use only information necessary for the specific safety purpose. Identifiable third-party photographs, names, vehicle identifiers and allegations are held for human review under the proposed policy. Appearance, clothing, ethnicity, religion, disability or lawful activity alone cannot justify a suspicion alert. Verification of an account is separate from verification of the reported event.

Describe concrete events accurately and include only identifiers needed for the particular purpose. Minimise bystanders and vulnerable people's information. A suspicion label does not remove the harm from an unsupported or mistaken accusation.

5. Safe action

Alert recipients should take proportionate safety action, protect themselves and use emergency services when needed. No pursuit, intimidation, public shaming, confrontation or crowdsourced suspect tracking. Call 999 in an emergency. OnSiren delivery is separate from police reporting, acknowledgement or dispatch.

6. Corrections and expiry

Report a mistaken alert promptly. Where required by law, OnSiren informs recipients of rectification, erasure or restriction unless this is impossible or involves disproportionate effort; the exception must be assessed and recorded. A person can ask to be told about those recipients.

The proposed alert service ends ordinary display after the approved 24-hour live period. Stale reports must not silently receive a fresh lifetime through reposting, delayed moderation or correction. Restricted archive access follows the justified retention and hold schedule. Product recall and expiry controls require verification.

7. Identity and contact

Your ordinary identity is your call sign. Real-name disclosure receives a separate documented review. Other users, employers and official organisations can ask to contact an officer; a request creates no automatic entitlement to identity.

Accepting an ordinary conversation under a call sign does not itself authorise disclosure of a name, telephone number or SIA licence details. Compulsory demands and urgent official requests follow their separately assessed routes.

8. Fair enforcement and exit

Published service rules need a fair complaint, correction and appeal route. Suspension of operational features must preserve routes for privacy requests and any separate union membership. Liability, consumer rights, jurisdiction, service availability and final contractual licence wording remain open in the legal register. This proposed supplement does not replace the existing full terms until formally adopted.

The final rules must identify restriction triggers, reasons given where lawful and safe, the human review route and its owner. Urgent containment can precede review where justified. The proposed union remains a separate future service; no new union benefit or employment commitment is created here.