The Rutland Community App has launched following a highly-anticipated rebrand.

Now available to download on iPhone and Android, the free app includes a whole range of features, including traffic alerts, local emergency and contact numbers bus and train times, lost and found pets and more.

The Rutland Community App has been created by the Rutland Community Safety Partnership.

Packed with features, it enables the community of Rutland, those living, working, and visiting this beautiful county to engage with the many different informative sources of safety, community and advisory information, using all platforms of multimedia to bring to them a powerful tool on a smartphone screen.

The new app is more accessible. Image credit: Rutland Community App.

The app will allow users to:

• Access traffic and crime alerts for Rutland and its borders
• Instantly contact 999, Crimestoppers, Childline or Domestic Abuse
• Receive alerts/messages with our push notification feature
• View listings of local events
• Access information
• Find a doctor, dentist or veterinary surgeon
• Access bus timetables, search for the next train or locate a charge spot for your electric car
• Submit photos of lost or found pets
• Engage with the local, county, and regional police and others through social media
• Contact Rutland County Council
• Get the latest information on cybercrime
• Report abandoned vehicles, graffiti, lamps out and similar such concerns to RCC through Fix My Street
• Access 'Where Am I?', a tracking tool you can also share on email, so others know where you are

Within days of launching, the app has already been downloaded hundreds of times.

Find out more and download here.