Ingham County is adopting a new translation service to help non-English speakers make emergency 911 calls.
“Nowhere is it probably more important than a 911 center where you really have to have someone immediately,” said District 5 Ingham County Commissioner Todd Tennis.
A 16-year-old girl working at a McDonald’s in New Orleans called 911 from the freezer to report an armed robbery — and discovered her mother was on the other end of the call.
WORTHINGTON — When a call comes in to the 911 dispatch center at the Prairie Justice Center in Worthington, the emergency services dispatcher never knows what they might encounter on the other end of the line.
On Oct. 26, 18 members of the campus community graduated from the first Department of Public Safety (DPS) community police academy. The academy is a free four-week program designed to give students, faculty and staff an idea of what it is like to protect and serve the campus community. During their time, participants learned from guest presenters, including representatives from DPS, Fire and Life Safety Services, Residential Safety Program and Syracuse University Ambulance. The presentations included tours, lectures and hands-on practical trainings.
San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said a “higher priority dispatch” was sent to the residence of Paul Pelosi because of the 911 operator’s “intuition” that there was “something more to the incident than what she was being told.”
