by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 22, 2022 | Comm Center News
The local 911 and emergency dispatch program is expected to cost more next year, but there may be a way to ease the impact on taxpayers with the help of funds in reserve.
That was the message of 911 Coordinator Larry Haug to the government liaison committee Thursday.
The 2023 budget would look similar to this year’s $2.53 million budget but for a proposed increase in staff in Minot Central Dispatch and additional costs with the phone network, Haug said. The amount of those changes is uncertain yet…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 22, 2022 | Comm Center News
A Wisconsin man was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for making more than 75 phone calls to a police dispatch over a day this past summer, according to local reports.
Dodge County Circuit Judge Martin De Vries sentenced John Cowen to three years of prison time and another six years of extended supervision, according to The Journal Times.
Cowen was found guilty in February of unlawful phone use, resisting or obstructing an officer and a felony count of battery or threat to law enforcement, as well as bail jumping, according to the report…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 21, 2022 | Comm Center News
FORT EDWARD — The Washington County Board of Supervisors recognized the county’s 911 communications team Friday with a proclamation honoring National Public Safety Communicators Week, April 1-16.
The proclamation called public safety communicators “the first and most critical contact our citizens have with emergency services” and “the vital first link for first responders by monitoring their activities by radio, providing them information, and ensuring their safety.” It also noted communicators’ contributions “to the apprehension of criminals, suppression of fires and treatment of patients…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 21, 2022 | Comm Center News
Sidney is still waiting for official confirmation that the province has deferred downloading the costs related to police dispatching.
A provincial official earlier this spring told North Cowichan that senior spheres have found funding for RCMP E-Comm 911 dispatch. E-Comm 911 is a multi-municipality agency that provides emergency communications operations for British Columbia, including Sidney and North Saanich. They along with six other communities on southern Vancouver Island had previously received notice that they would have to absorb 100 per cent of the costs for RCMP E-Comm 911 dispatch calls under an arranged phase-in…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 21, 2022 | Comm Center News
A series of fire alarms dragged Hillsboro firefighters to Container Services earlier this month only to find that Container Services was not having a burst of arson but rather issues with its alarm system, which that caused repeated automatic notifications.
Faulty alarms have cried wolf for emergency services at least once a week and as often as six times a month since the start of 2022.
Emergency medical services may call in police as well for assistance in entry to places that, as it later turned out, they didn’t need to be in. And some alarms are activated multiple times in a short period…
