The people who notice first are the people who live there.
Somewhere for a community to record and share a danger in a place, so that other people passing through know about it before they arrive. A flooded road, an open drain, a wall that has started to lean.
Not an emergency service, and we say so before you type anything
Every report says how checked it is, and most have been checked by nobody
No account needed to report, and no money anywhere in it
What Ardent Safety is for
It is amplification, not response. We help what somebody knows reach more people nearby, and we are careful never to imply anything more than that.
The emergency number comes first
Every entry point opens with the national emergency number as a link you can tap, and you cannot get past it without acknowledging it. In the app those numbers are compiled into the app itself, so the screen works with no signal and no account.
Report a hazard in a minute
Pick the type, say what you can see, and choose the district. No account, no photograph of anybody, and your name and number are optional and never published.
How checked it is, never hidden
A community report and a report carrying a police reference never look alike, anywhere: not in the list, not on the page, not in a widget on somebody else's website. Most reports are unverified, and the label says so in words rather than in a colour.
Neighbours confirm what they have seen
If you have seen the same thing, you can say so. It is not a vote and it sends nobody, but several people independently confirming one hazard is the best signal there is that it is real.
Reports expire on their own
Every published report has an end date, and a resolved or withdrawn one comes down immediately. A warning about a problem somebody already fixed sends people looking for something that is not there.
Partner agencies, credited honestly
When an agency confirms a report, their name appears on it with a line saying exactly what they did. That line can never say anybody has been dispatched, because we cannot dispatch anybody.
How it works
01
You see the emergency number
Before anything else, on every route in. If somebody is in danger right now, that is the thing to use, and no form here is a substitute for it.
02
You describe the place
The type, what you can see, and the district. The form has no field for a person and never will: if a form can hold an accusation, sooner or later it carries one to a crowd.
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A person reads it
During business hours, Monday to Friday. Nothing is published automatically. If it reaches phones, two members of staff have approved it and there is a record of who and on what evidence.
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Your neighbours see it
On the website, in the app, and anywhere a district assembly or local newsroom has embedded the feed. The verification label travels with it everywhere.
What we will not do
This is the part of the product worth reading twice. Most of what follows is enforced in the database rather than in a policy, because a rule that depends on everybody remembering it is not a rule.
We do not dispatch. Ardent has no vehicles, no radios, no duty roster and no authority to task anybody who has. Nothing you file here reaches the police, the fire service or an ambulance, and we cannot pass it to them for you. If you need somebody to come, call 112.
There is no field for a suspect, anywhere, and there never will be. We help find people who may be at risk, never people the public should confront. Reports that name or describe somebody you blame are removed.
There are no rewards and no bounties, and nobody can attach one. A payment offered for information turns readers into a search party, which is how an innocent man gets hunted.
Nobody is watching overnight or at the weekend. We would rather tell you that before you spend time on a form than have you waiting on a report nobody has opened.
We do not run facial recognition, on your photographs or anybody else's. It would turn a help service into a surveillance system that anybody could query by filing a report.
There is no money path. No donations on a report, no fees, nothing to buy. A safety notice with a payment button attached is a fraud waiting to happen.
Questions, answered
No, and we deliberately do not offer a form for those. Choosing one shows you the number to call and nothing else. A form implies somebody is waiting to receive it, and for those situations the delay would be measured in the minutes that decide the outcome. Call 112.
Yes, and please go to the police first. They are the only body that can investigate, there is no 24-hour waiting period, and we cannot publish a page without the reference number they give you. For a suspected child abduction, ask them about AMBER Alert Ghana, which reaches far more people than we can. Our form asks you to agree, separately, that an adult has the right not to be found and that this person has not left to escape violence, because where somebody has fled, publishing them is the harm rather than the help.
No. You can read reports and file one without an account, because somebody who has just watched a wall start to lean is not going to create one first, and requiring it would lose exactly the reports worth having.
It means somebody reported this and nobody has checked it. That is the normal state for most reports and it is still worth reading, because the person who noticed usually lives beside the thing. It just is not the same as somebody official having looked, and we label which one you are reading.
Open it in Ardent before acting on it. A screenshot does not expire and it carries no status, so it may be describing something that was fixed weeks ago. Every report shows its reference and date for exactly this reason, and the live page always shows the current state.
Yes. There is a public API, an embeddable widget and a WordPress plugin, so a district assembly or a local newsroom can show current reports on their own pages. Everything published that way carries the verification label and the line saying Ardent is not an emergency service, and neither can be switched off.
Know something your neighbours should know?
Ardent Safety is running in Ghana, operated by the Ardent Africa Foundation. If somebody is in danger right now, call 112 first. Everything else can wait for the form.