The omicron surge has caused some issues for regional law enforcement agencies, but it has not caused large disruptions on patrol or fire shifts.
Officials from Owensboro and Daviess County law enforcement and fire agencies said last week that the surge has occasionally required them to pay overtime to fill shifts, but said operations have been largely unaffected.
Trooper Corey King, public affairs officer for Kentucky State Police’s Henderson post, said Thursday that the agency had three troopers out earlier in the week with various illnesses…
A 73-year-old woman from Long Island helped New York police arrest a man who allegedly tried to scam her by posing as a bailiff on Thursday. She previously worked as a 911 dispatcher.
Nassau County first contacted the woman, claiming to be her grandson, who said he was in jail and needed to contact her attorney. police The department wrote in a statement shared newsweek,
Then, the woman got a second call from a man claiming to be her grandson’s lawyer, who said she needed $8,000 to post her bail…
Within minutes after area residents or visitors to our community call Lapeer County 911 Central Dispatch to report a medical emergency, help is on the way. To the individuals, family members or passersby who placed the 911 call it matters little what colors or whose agency name is on the side of the ambulance, fire truck, or first responder units that show up on scene sirens blaring and lights flashing.
What matters most is that help gets there fast when minutes can be the difference between life and death without medical intervention. Maybe it’s a stroke, a heart attack, an opioid overdose, a suicide attempt, a vehicular or farm-implement accident or an industrial mishap at a local manufacturing facility…
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — At just a week old, Addalyn Clarken already has quite the story to tell.
“Not to be graphic, but she was coming,” her mother Jill Clarken said. “There was no waiting.”
It was last Saturday when Jill and her husband John called 911 after realizing Addalyn was entering this world sooner than they expected, and they didn’t have time to get to a hospital.
“There was a pretty urgent need to get some help because we weren’t going anywhere,” Jill said…
With personnel shortages at about 20 percent in some areas of the Jefferson City Police Department, city officials — like many employers today — are running into hurdles when it comes to recruiting and retaining employees, specifically police officers and communications operators.
However, city staff hopes a new incentive program will attract more potential hires and alleviate those hiring issues.
The Jefferson City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday authorizing the police department to reinvest unexpended funds from the department’s personnel services budget in recruitment and retention incentives for police officers and communications operators…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
