Albany County opens new E911 Center (NY)
ALBANY COUNTY, N.Y. — Albany County Sheriff Craig D. Apple, Sr. announced the grand opening of the new Albany County E911 Center/Emergency Operations Center in Clarksville.
Petersburg Police Department receives first “text for help” from sinking vessel (AK)
Petersburg police received a call for help from a 26 foot aluminum boat that had tipped onto its side near the south end of Kuiu Island on April 30th. Two people were aboard, and both of them survived the sinking.
City commission looks at proposal for new communication center (TX)
The Urban Transportation Committee was presented last Tuesday with the prospect of a second facility to operate CTECC: the Combined Transportation, Emergency and Communications Center.
Dallas restores core emergency dispatch systems (TX)
Dallas officials on Monday said critical services have been restored following a widespread outage caused by last week’s ransomware attack. The Dallas Police Department and city’s websites are back online as of Sunday, Bill Zielinski, CIO for the City of Dallas, said during a city council public safety committee meeting.
The city continues to recover and restore access to its computer-assisted dispatch system.
31 minutes for police to arrive on scene where officer was killed (IL)
CHICAGO (CBS) — Thirty-one minutes – that is how long it appears to have taken for police to arrive on the tragic scene where Officer Areanah Preston was shot in Avalon Park, in an incident that ultimately took her life.
But dispatchers had been alerted to a round of shots that had been fired, thanks to a high-tech gunshot detection system.
