by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
Residents of Sidney and North Saanich face higher taxes unless the provincial government delays plans to download 100 per cent of emergency dispatching costs.
The two are among eight south Island municipalities – Langford, Colwood, View Royal and Sooke are also affected – that are subject to an agreement in which senior levels of government share the cost of RCMP E-Comm 9-1-1 dispatch services. The province covers 70 per cent of costs, the federal government the rest…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
Communications between Dubuque County’s 911 communications staff and rural fire departments are experiencing some growing pains in what officials say otherwise has been a beneficial overhaul of emergency communications.
In September 2017, Dubuque County supervisors voted to bond for about $10 million to revamp the emergency communication system to meet the latest federal standards. The project included new radio towers, upgrades at the Dubuque 911 Emergency Communications Center and a system of digital pagers for the county’s many volunteer fire departments…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 22, 2021 | Comm Center News
Civilians and police officers working side by side in an operational environment – while commonplace nowadays within the Queensland Police Service (QPS), this has not always been the case.
In 1996, a decision was made to train and include civilian staff members in our Communications centres, where their roles included answering emergency calls and dispatching police crews.
Some years on, we are now celebrating 25 years of civilian communications operators…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 22, 2021 | Comm Center News
A number of Oakland police dispatchers called in sick during recent shifts, leading department officials to scramble to field 911 calls with the help of mutual aid from surrounding cities, The Chronicle has learned.
Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said the department hasn’t determined whether the sudden illnesses were a sickout or possibly COVID-related amid the omicron surge…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 21, 2021 | Comm Center News
When someone says the term “first responder,” most individuals think of a firefighter, officer, paramedic or EMT – but between the blue and red lines is a thin gold line that represents the first responders that are rarely seen.
On Wednesday, December 15, a severe wind advisory and thunderstorm watch were issued to parts of the KMMO listening area and behind the scene were E-911 Dispatchers.
According to a release, Saline County E-911 Dispatchers sat quietly in the calm before the storm, but calls had already started rolling in due to high winds setting off alarms and blowing down trees that were blocking roadways…
