by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 22, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
For agencies considering the transition to P25, the video offers insights and advice from public safety officials with firsthand experience.
The Project 25 (P25) standard for public safety land mobile radio (LMR) enables responders from different disciplines and jurisdictions to communicate seamlessly during joint operations regardless of the manufacturer of their equipment.
This capability is fundamental for saving lives and property, and agencies nationwide recognize its importance. Two issues, however, often make agencies hesitate to adopt P25 technology. First is the perceived high cost of P25 equipment and its implementation; second is the advent of long-term evolution (LTE) broadband technologies in public safety…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 22, 2021 | Comm Center News
The Central South Dakota Communications Center in Pierre is receiving new equipment thanks to some one-time funding from the State of South Dakota.
The 911 Coordination Board, administered by the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, has awarded the public safety dispatch center $108,388 to purchase new radios and computers, creating two additional work stations.
According to Cindy Gross, Communications Center Manager, they serve as the backup answering point for other dispatch and state radio centers. She says the additional work stations give them the ability to dedicate technology and staff to handle traffic when one of the other communications centers across the state needs an assist. Additionally, Gross says, if there was a large emergency within its service territory, the additional consoles could be dedicated specifically to that incident…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 22, 2021 | Comm Center News
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Serious allegations contained in a new federal lawsuit paint Lehigh County’s 911 Center as a place where discrimination, negligence, and outright incompetence run rampant.
One especially startling claim in the lawsuit is that one dispatcher’s negligence and racism possibly resulted in two people dying in a house fire.
One of the most serious claims in the more than 70-page lawsuit concerns a 911 dispatcher and a Spanish-speaking man who called 911 from inside a burning home on North Fair Street in Allentown in July of 2020. The dispatcher allegedly told the man who was making the 911 call to speak English and hung up. The man who was inside the burning home and a 14-year-old boy died in the fire…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 21, 2021 | Comm Center News
A Greer resident is suing Greenville County Council for $300 million on behalf of all county property owners after the state Supreme Court ruled that road fees the county had imposed were invalid.
The lawsuit, filed By Jerry A. Bruce on Wednesday, says Greenville County has collected an estimated $30 million in road-maintenance fees and public safety telecommunications infrastructure fees through new and amended county ordinances.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that the were invalid after they were previously challenged in a separate lawsuit. In that case, three Republican state lawmakers from Greenville County, Reps. Mike Burns and Garry Smith and state Sen. Dwight Loftis, prevailed in arguing that the fees the county was collecting were illegal taxes…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 21, 2021 | Comm Center News
David Maron was named captain of the Bayview Station last February, after more than 25 years with the San Francisco Police Department. His appointment was made in the wake of a year of civic unrest demanding changes to policing and public safety nationwide.
Maron was previously a lieutenant at Park Station on the Westside for three years after being a patrol sergeant and station investigator at the Ingleside Station for five years and serving 10 years in the tactical unit. He got his start at Southern, Northern and Mission stations.
When asked if morale has been affected by anti-police sentiments, Maron said “I think it would depend on where you’re at. Here in Bayview, morale is pretty good. A lot of people – including myself – love to come to work, enjoy this job…
