by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 12, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The City of Westerville OH Communications Division is the 70th ECC in the United States to implement the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) and the 5th ECC in the state of Ohio to implement ASAP. Westerville went live with Vector Security, Rapid Response, Affiliated Monitoring, Amherst Alarm, AT&T Digital Life, Guardian Protection, Brinks Home Security, National Monitoring Center, Protection One, Security Central, Tyco (Johnson Controls), and Vivint on Wednesday, June 3. ADT is expected to go-live with Westerville in the upcoming weeks…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 12, 2020 | Jobs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND QUALIFICATIONS:
The City of Stephenville Police Department is currently accepting applications for the position of Full-Time 9-1-1 Operator/Police Dispatcher. Applicants must be available to work days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays as they are scheduled. Applicants must successfully complete a backgrounds investigation, interviews, drug screening, and polygraph. Applicants must be 18 years of age or older…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 12, 2020 | Comm Center News
BRANCH COUNTY — The 911 Central Dispatch board promised a special meeting next week to try to address a continuing crisis in staffing.
This came after six-year dispatcher David Houvener read a letter to the board about lack of people to man the 24-hour-per-day, seven-days-a-week critical service.
Normal staffing requires 11 workers, but the service has been operating with fewer and is again down to seven dispatchers…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 12, 2020 | Jobs
Performs a variety of working level technical duties involving the use of communications equipment to gather and record necessary information, and to dispatch police, fire and emergency personnel in response to a variety of emergency and assistance calls. Works under the general supervision of the Shift Supervisor…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 11, 2020 | Comm Center News
Augmented reality technology is becoming more popular in the public safety community. For example, fire departments are starting to test out AR helmets and masks to enhance firefighters’ situational awareness.
Augmented reality — in which digital information is overlaid onto a view of the real world via a headset, glasses or smartphone — can help first responders gather information about the locations they are moving through, provide structural layouts and even help with training. The National Institute of Standards and Technology earlier this year launched a contest to attract solutions using…
