Havre police may get cellphone alert system

Havre police may soon have an alert system that will enable them to instantaneously warn people of an emergency on their cellphones..

Police Chief Gabe Matosich told City Council Monday night that he is talking to providers and working on ways to fund the project.

Matosich said the system could have been used in warning people about the prisoner who escaped Fort Belknap police custody in Havre last month.

Under the system he is studying, people would not have to subscribe to the service, the alert would automatically reach anyone in the city limits.

For instance, he said, people visiting from...