by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 9, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The Federal Communications Commission is usually enthusiastic about opening up additional spectrum for commercial use. Not in the case of the T-Band—which has long been used by public safety agencies in some major cities, but under a Congressional mandate, has to be auctioned off by February 2021.
FCC Chair Ajit Pai has repeatedly asked Congress to scuttle the so-called T-Band mandate, arguing that between the cost of moving users out of the band and the disruption to public safety communications, it’s not worth it. While there is bipartisan opposition to a T-Band auction and some legislation has been proposed that would include a repeal of the mandate, so far Congress hasn’t passed anything that lets the FCC off the hook for a T-Band auction. So the agency recently proposed rules (pdf) for the reallocation of the T-Band spectrum at 470-512 MHz…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 9, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Manitoba provincial 911 dispatch centre in Brandon has a new tool to help track down people lost or injured in rural areas.
People can be located relatively quickly in urban areas with a street address, but the process is much harder for emergency dispatchers when someone calls from a rural area, said the City of Brandon’s director of emergency communications, Robert Stewart. People may have no idea where they are or can’t see any identifiable landmarks…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 9, 2020 | Comm Center News |
An emergency dispatcher picks up a call from a mother who says her adult son is angry and breaking things at home, but he may not react well to police officers.
In most cities, armed officers would be first at the scene, but in Eugene, Ore., there’s another option called CAHOOTS, a community-based crisis intervention service that pairs medics with mental health specialists…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 9, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Over the years, the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) has developed and published a large number of documents to provide Land Mobile Radio (LMR) and broadband network operators, public-safety users, and vendors with information that will assist them in providing features and functions needed by the public-safety community. For the most part, NPSTC committees are structured to enable anyone interested in a specific topic to participate in a committee’s activities and development of final work products…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 9, 2020 | Comm Center News
Therapy Animals: Helping 9-1-1 One Paw at a Time
Wednesday, August 26 | | 3PM Eastern (live) or On-Demand
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This webinar provides a replicable case study that shows how you can implement an employee-decompression plan, which includes therapy-dog visits as a part of a healthy PSAP environment. Attend to learn about:
- The positive impact the program had;
- Issues encountered and lessons learned during the program’s roll out; and
- The benefits of having a center pet and how that is managed in some center across the country…
