Student Notices

The ResQ Personal Emergency Response System is among one of the new Campus Security initiatives being made available to students of The UWI St. Augustine Campus. The Office of the Deputy Principal continues its call for students to pilot the ResQ app.

Opt-in today the new ResQ Personal Emergency Response System  by downloading the app to:

• Trigger an Emergency Alert with the touch of a button or on your mobile phone

• Get 24/7 Rapid Location Emergency Response Security Service on and around the campus

How to get ResQ

Please send your name, Student ID# and cell phone number to Deputy.Principal@sta.uwi.edu.

Follow the instructions in the video to download the App (click this link) to get started and collect your Panic Button from the Deputy Principal’s Office.

Important: In order to gain access to the app – you need to enter your UWI student (my.uwi.edu) address first and any other personal email address you would like to receive ResQ updates to second. This is to ensure that you are properly registered on the system.

Please note: You must have a smartphone to use the ResQ app. 

About ResQ

When in any danger or accident or medical distress or other emergency, the students can activate the system by pressing the panic button or pressing the app or shaking the phone vigorously. The phone will then transmit to the ResQ Command Centre the student’s location, in addition to live audio and video.  A response team will then be dispatched to the location.

The area of coverage is a 5 mile radius around the St Augustine Campus and Mt Hope. There is also coverage on Ariapita Avenue on weekends (Thursdays to Sundays). The security firm G4S will respond. In areas outside of the 5 mile radius, information will be relayed to the state police for them to respond.

Follow the instructions in this video here to download the App to get started and collect your Panic Button from the Deputy Principal’s Office.