by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2022 | Comm Center News
Deschutes 911 is the latest industry impacted by a labor shortage.
“We have seven current openings, and at this moment we don’t have any applicants that made it through our initial screening process,” said Chris Perry, General Operations Manager for Deschutes County 911.
Though the shortage isn’t causing missed emergency calls yet, it has resulted in several dispatch employees working overtime, or skipping their holidays.
For a job requiring a sharp mind under pressure, working extra hours doesn’t help…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2022 | Comm Center News
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) — The Kentucky State Police (KSP) announced Friday that eleven telecommunicators, representing six posts across the commonwealth, have graduated from the KSP Telecommunications Academy.
The graduates of Class 19 received 160 hours of instruction over four weeks. Major training areas include legal liability, limits of telecommunicator authority, telecommunicator’s role in public safety, interpersonal communications, customer service, combating stress, ethics and confidentiality, responder safety, basic fire dispatch, state emergency operation plans, criminal justice information systems, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, first aid training, emergency medical dispatch and special needs callers…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2022 | Comm Center News
There are just three agencies in Texas that are dual credited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.
And the Frisco Police Department is one of them.
During a Tuesday Frisco City Council meeting, city officials celebrated the department’s accreditation from CALEA for both its law enforcement and communications sides.
The Frisco Police Department’s accreditation for law enforcement practices became effective on Dec. 6 and will last for four years. This is the law enforcement agency’s fifth accreditation award, said Randy Scott, regional program manager with the commission, also known as CALEA…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2022 | Comm Center News
Paragon, Ind. — A 911 dispatcher and volunteer firefighter has been arrested and charged for possession of child pornography, according to the Indiana State Police.Online group catches Muncie man in child solicitation sting
Luke Jobes, 23, was booked into the Morgan County Jail on a Level 6 felony charge. Jobes was a Morgan County 911 dispatcher and volunteered for the Paragon Volunteer Fire Department… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 18, 2022 | Comm Center News
The Los Lunas fire and police departments implemented some much needed system upgrades to their communication channels last month, improving emergency response in the village.
“This is the first time in my 23 years that we’ve been actually upgrading the entire system as a whole,” said Los Lunas Fire Chief John Gabaldon told the News-Bulletin, adding the system, however, did have several smaller upgrades.
John Gabaldon
Los Lunas Fire Chief
He presented the need for system upgrades to the Los Lunas Village Council last September, saying their VHF system was outdated and advocated for a switch to a 700 MHz band.
Gabaldon said the upgrades were necessary to bring them into compliance with Federal Communication Commission regulations regarding public safety and first responder communications…
