by AllThingsECC.com | May 26, 2022 | Comm Center News
VALLEJO, Calif. (KRON) — Vallejo Police Department’s nighttime 911 center might be closing down due to a shortage of staff.
Vallejo police announced in a press release Wednesday, that department was fully staffed in early 2020, but has faced a significant loss in employment in recent times. Officials say staff often leaves to work at other agencies in the region.
“On average, Vallejo’s dispatchers handle 400-500 calls per day and now routinely work with only two people in the dispatch center, not allowing for breaks or even basic trips to the bathroom,” Vallejo police stated in the press release. “Whereas five dispatchers per shift provide the most effective amount of resources for safe and efficient operation…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 26, 2022 | Comm Center News
CALHOUN COUNTY, Mich. — A Massachusetts man admitted to threatening to kill a 911 dispatcher in Calhoun County, according to authorities.
Jonathan Munafo called Calhoun County dispatch more than 140 times on Jan. 5, 2021, according to the United States Attorney’s Office Western District of Michigan. He pleaded guilty to communicating a threat in interstate commerce in federal court in Gand Rapids Wednesday.
Munafo was in North Carolina on his way to the Jan. 6 capitol riot when he made the calls, authorities said.
The 35-year-old tied up lines at Calhoun County Central Dispatch for hours demanding to speak with a deputy or sergeant but did not have an emergency to report… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | May 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
In a room hidden away from the public eye at an undisclosed location in Cuyahoga County sits a small team of analysts and operators, law enforcement and civilian, ready at a moment’s notice to respond to the next emergency, be that a brutal home invasion, a school shooting or an officer down.
What they’re doing is all but certain to become the future of incident response, and if they are successful, Cleveland will lead the way for a safer Ohio as procedures and technologies are implemented and refined then passed down to smaller communities throughout the buckeye state…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
COLUMBUS—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced today that the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s Traffic Safety Office (OTSO), Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD), and statewide law enforcement partners have developed a new communication card to help individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing exchange information with law enforcement.
The new card, which can be downloaded onto a phone or printed and stored inside a vehicle, wallet, or purse, includes various pictures that deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals can point to in order to help them more easily communicate during interactions with law enforcement…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
FORT WORTH, Texas — For first responders at MedStar, no day is ever the same, and not every day is high-intensity. But there’s one thing that remains the same day in and day out when they clock in for their 12-hour shifts — maybe they’ll help save or change a life that day — and that alone is enough to make them love what they do.
The Metropolitan Area EMS Authority, also known as MedStar, serves millions of people in Tarrant County across 15 cities. The ambulance service responds to upwards of 155,000 calls per year with its 65 emergency vehicles, 550-person staff and an efficient operations system that other ambulance service providers from 46 states and five countries have come to Fort Worth to pick up tips from…
