by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
AURORA, Colo. — Aurora’s 911 Communications Center is being inundated with angry calls and threats regarding the Elijah McClain case, bogging down the call system and slowing down public safety response.
On social media, a call was put out to call the non-emergency line for Aurora police to speak out in the McClain investigation.
But Tina Buneta, Aurora’s public safety communications director, said some calls are intended to disrupt…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
CRESTVIEW —Okaloosa County officials plan to issue a request for proposals to banks that will compete for the right to loan the county a projected $20 million for the replacement of inadequate emergency services communications equipment.
That plan received the County Commission’s unanimous approval Tuesday. County officials intend to pay off the loan with local option half-cent sales tax revenue…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 8, 2020 | Jobs
The Lower Colorado River Authority Public Safety Department (headquartered in Austin) has an open telecommunicate position -Dispatcher II. At an intermediate level, receives and dispatches messages for the communication center. Operates telephones, communication systems and law enforcement computers. Receives, processes and dispatches calls/messages to/from vehicles and personnel and acts as a liaison between callers and police/fire/emergency representatives. Monitors central monitoring station alarms.We do not take domestic calls, 911, or EMD. We are focused on securing critical infrastructure and enforcing laws on the waterways and lands of the LCRA…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
| The Vetting Mental-Health-Provider Resources for Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) working group will produce an information document that will inform agencies when developing or refining their EAPs. The document will define EAP, identify different types of EAPs with the advantages and shortcomings of each EAP type, and identify specific criteria for professional mental health and wellness consultants, clinicians, counselors, and therapists to be included as agencies’ EAP providers.
Any and all 9-1-1 professionals, mental health and wellness professionals, and persons with agency human-resource experience and/or with EAPs are invited to sign up here. |
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 7, 2020 | Comm Center News
Audio of the forceful push led by U.S. Park Police to sweep protesters out of Lafayette Square on June 1, moments before President Trump’s visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church, was not recorded by the Park Police radio communications system, the agency said Tuesday.
Steve Souder, a widely respected public safety communications expert who oversaw 911 systems in Arlington, Montgomery and Fairfax counties, said of the Park Police failure, “I find it quite shocking. They want this stuff recorded. They have nothing to hide…
