Seeking to contain the costs of its largest infrastructure project — a new public safety building in the California Avenue business district — Palo Alto has charged its city auditor with examining every change order and invoice associated with the new structure.
And while the project still remains in an early stage, with completion scheduled for June 2023, the firm Baker Tilly is already finding errors and discrepancies, according to a recently released audit…
Midlothian’s 9-1-1 operators recently began using medical dispatch protocols designed to provide immediate response to callers’ needs and at the same time dispatch emergency personnel without delay.
While previous procedures limited dispatchers to obtaining the location where help was needed and a brief description of the emergency, new protocols allow them to provide instructions for treating the emergency until help arrives…
The St. Joseph Police Department needs communications operators, and officials are looking for applicants.
Capt. John Olszowka recently took over the command center at the police department. They field calls for the police, fire, EMS and sheriff’s departments.
Olszowka said they’re concerned about staffing during a busy storm season…
MUNCIE, Ind. — A new 911 director has been hired for Delaware County.
Bernard “Fred” Cummings will oversee the Delaware County Emergency Communications Center when he arrives in Muncie to take the position in mid-January. He has been serving as a PSAP (public safety answering points) shift supervisor in a suburb of Minneapolis, according interim 911 director Barry Ritter.
PSAPs are the primary answering points for wireless 911 calls…
Keith Thornton, who gained widespread praise for his handling of Chicago police dispatching duties in the minutes after a gunman fatally shot Officer Ella French and gravely wounded her partner during a traffic stop in August, is fed up.
“Keith is p*ssed. Keith is p*ssed right now,” Thornton said as he opened a nearly 30-minute-long Facebook video rant about anemic staffing levels in a North Side police district.
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