Faster response or privacy concern? Police seek digital access to apartment gates

In an emergency, police can reach an apartment complex within minutes — only to lose crucial time at its locked entrance.

That delay is what the National Police Agency hopes to reduce with a new digital access system for apartment buildings.

The agency is developing a feature for the police 112 mobile application that uses Bluetooth technology to unlock communal apartment entrances, granting access to officers responding to emergency calls.

The plan, aimed at shortening response times in violent ...