MISSOURI CITY – The Missouri City Police Department is the first Texas police agency to implement new software that allows officers to hear emergency calls in the field in real-time.
It is called 911 Livestream and it’s providing officers with a “head start”.
The department currently has five licenses and its goal is to make sure every officer is equipped with the 911 Livestream application…
The emergency communications centers that receive these calls have emerged as the first and single point of contact for persons seeking immediate relief during an emergency.
Russell Mayor Jim Cross signed a proclamation Tuesday designating April 10 through 16 as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week in the City of Russell…
On Wednesday, April 6, Governor Kathy Hochul announced $62.4 million in funds for emergency communications and interoperability infrastructure available to counties across New York State.
Individual counties can apply for the 2022 Statewide Interoperable Communications Targeted Grant Program (SICG) for funding to “improve infrastructure, address communications deficiencies, implement national interoperability channels, and enhance regional connectivity between counties and systems,” according to a press release…
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) -A new system is in place to help those calling 911 in Linn County. The Linn County Sheriff’s Office implemented the Priority Dispatch System last month.
Dispatchers at the sheriff’s office answer thousands of 911 calls every year from all of the county. While cities like Cedar Rapids and Marion have their own dispatchers, calls from outside those cities are handled at the sheriff’s office…
I am disappointed that I cannot find the archived article I wrote a number of years ago and published on April Fool’s Day. I had described how I was at a restaurant in Silicon Valley and at the table next to me were some Microsoft and FCC executives. I reported that they were discussing how Microsoft could buy the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and have access to all the spectrum the FCC controlled. The article went into detail and some readers fell for it. This year I will be sticking to facts and truth!
More IWCE 2022
As I said last week, it was great to be able to attend IWCE again. Yes, the number of attendees and exhibitors were down from pre-Covid years but I am confident that next year, unless there is yet another outbreak of the virus, IWCE should be back where it was a few years and perhaps larger…
