Mayor Sylvester Turner has appointed the interim director of the Houston Emergency Center to the permanent role, according to a press release.
Robert Mock took on the interim role on Feb. 1, a day after the previous director, David Cutler, retired. Cutler served as the director of the Houston Emergency Center since July 2005.
The Houston Emergency Center, a division of the Mayor’s Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security, was developed in 2003 to consolidate three emergency communications centers for 911: the Neutral Public Safety Answering Point, Police Department Emergency Communications Division and Fire Department Emergency Communications Operations. The center takes over 1.8 million emergency calls and over 800,000 non-emergency calls yearly… READ MORE
