In an effort to better recruit and retain workers in the field, the Carteret County Board of Commissioners recently approved a 12.5% across-the-board pay increase for employees in the emergency communications center.
According to information from Carteret County Emergency Services director Stephen Rea, the center is experiencing a staffing shortage, with eight positions in currently unfilled. He said the job is a stressful one, leading to high turnover and difficulty with recruitment, but officials hope a pay boost will help attract and keep workers.
MERIDEN — The city’s pension board earlier this month voted not to approve an early retirement application with normal benefits for emergency communications dispatcher Elizabethan Marotti.
Marotti, who serves as president of the union that represents dispatchers, was among the city employees whose pension applications the board reviewed.
The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Emergency Communications Center was awarded national accreditation on Nov. 19 by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies in the communications program.
The agency was first accredited in November 2011.
Following a multi-year self-assessment phase and a meticulous site-based assessment of community ……
Richard Franz has been named the Deputy Director of the City of Lawton’s Emergency Communications Department.
As deputy director, Franz will be responsible for coordinating, directing, evaluating and supervising the work of the emergency communications center’s employees engaged in public safety dispatching and call-taking, according to a press release. Franz also will manage facilities, radio, computer information systems and related technologies. READ MORE
Postmedia file photoFour Perth County fire departments will be transferring their 911 dispatch services from Stratford’s fire department to the Owen Sound Emergency Communications Centre next year.
The Perth East, West Perth, North Perth and St. Marys fire departments, which, together, roughly serve most of Perth County except Stratford – recently inked a five-year-agreement with Owen Sound police for emergency dispatch services through its emergency communications centre, which currently handles 911 calls in Grey-Bruce and dispatch duties for seven police and 27 fire agencies across Bruce, Grey and Huron counties…
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.
