Waukegan officials decided last summer that joining Lake Consolidated Emergency Communications (LakeComm) — rather than dispatching police, fire and emergency medical services for the city itself — was the wrong move. Officials then began a search for the best solution.
Recognizing the aging dispatch center at the Waukegan Police Station needed an overhaul, city director of communications Tom Perfect said he found a location at the Waukegan International Airport for the city to start its own 911 operation. Services will be offered to other towns as well.
Leaders from the Minneapolis and Hennepin County emergency communications and dispatch centers on Thursday unveiled a new technology to automatically call back abandoned 911 calls.
The new Automated Abandoned Call (AAC) system will be used effective immediately. The software helps the dispatch centers quickly answer and send resources. It also reduces the time dispatchers spend to manually call back abandoned calls.
Officials who oversee and monitor Floyd County’s 911 system say citizens are safer now than they were before dispatching services moved from Kentucky State Police Post 9 in Pikeville to the City of Prestonsburg due to better response time by law enforcement and emergency personnel.
“Unequivocally,” said Prestonsburg Police Chief Ross Shurtleff, who is also the city’s public safety director. “It is the best that it’s ever been.”
Johnston’s district attorney and the county’s 911 communications team are among the latest recipients of N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s Dogwood Awards.
The awards go to people who are working to improve the health, safety and well-being of their fellow North Carolinians.
Fulton County Commissioners on Monday signed an interlocal agreement aimed at consolidating emergency communications with the city of Rochester.
Officials of Fulton County and the city of Rochester are close to finalizing an interlocal agreement to operate a combined, or centralized, 911 dispatch center.
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