Home What is a Safecall Getting Organised Safecall Guidelines Safecall Designates Links to other sites Contact Us	A Safecall enables you, and someone apart from your meeting (known as your Safecall Designate) to stay in touch. This can happen in two ways: either you can call them at pre arranged times, or they can call you. At the same time it is worthwhile informing the person you are meeting that you have a safecall in place. What this does of course is to make them aware that you have taken adequate steps to protect yourself. There are a number of things you should do, beginning before the meeting happens. When you get to that moment of arranging a meeting then you must tell the person that you are meeting that you will need to get some specific information from them, to protect you, and them at the time of the meeting. At this point if they are not prepared to give you such personal information as real names and addresses and other relevant information then alarm bells should already start to ring in your head. If they are genuine about meeting you, why should you not have some information in advance? After all, you will see them soon enough.
Lets assume then that the meeting is arranged. You have that information, and you must do something with it. Pass it to your safecall designate (ie the person who is going to be making the safecalls on your behalf). Include with it details such as the time, date, place and arrangements for the meeting. Agree with your designate whether they will call you, or you will call them, and also, decide upon some kind of code that can be used in a phone call, without raising suspicion, to tell them you are uncomfortable, and need to get out quickly. Ensure you have all relevant phone numbers in the memory of your mobile phone , and that it is fully charged. Low batteries wont help if you need to call someone quickly. Lets suppose that the designate is calling you. Within 5 minutes of the arranged meeting time, they call you, and ask if everything is ok? If you are comfortable, and all seems ok then thats fine. Over the course of the meeting they may call you once or twice, or more times, to ensure that you are fine. What you must be sure of is that if they do not get the right response they will take whatever appropriate action is needed to help you. It may be worth them having to hand the number of the local police, and all the details of your meeting which you have passed on. Your safety is in their hands, so they must be prepared to make that call if they deem it necessary. Our suggestion is that first meetings are social, in public, and purely vanilla, with no intent on play or scening. Similarly, having met someone once, there is no reason to dispense with safecalls for perhaps even two or three meetings, or until you are totally comfortable with the other person. Always keep your arrangements with your designate clear, and never change the itinerary, so that your designate knows where you are, and at what time. ©2003-2005 Safecall Part of the Seekers web group