by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
Union County officials are moving forward on a project to overhaul the 911 dispatch system.
“It’s just a total upgrade,” said Union County Emergency Management Director Curt Clayton. “This system will be the state-of-the-art system.”
The project will involve buying all new equipment and “redoing the whole 911 system,” Clayton noted.
The county’s current 911 system is working, but some parts are out of date, he said. Parts for some of the system cannot be purchased anymore, and the software is also out of date, Clayton said…
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. |
