When describing the personality of Brandy Watts, the word “enthusiastic” immediately comes to mind, especially when the police dispatcher is discussing her career in law enforcement.
As a dispatcher with the Bakersfield Police Department for more than 20 years, Watts, 47, and her fellow dispatchers take multitasking to level beyond what most people can comprehend.
Whether the incoming 911 call is for a robbery in progress, an officer involved shooting, a baby not breathing or a child abduction, dispatchers must simultaneously answer the call and deploy officers to the scene.
Thousands of 911 centers are improving their response by leveraging the life-saving data of the RapidSOS Clearinghouse. Now, thanks to our NICE Inform integration with RapidSOS, that same data can transform your post incident reconstruction and investigations.
Double Platinum 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program Winner,NICE Public Safety, has announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with RapidSOS, also a former ‘ASTORS’ Award Winner, to deliver data-driven incident reconstruction and insights to 911 Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs).
As a RapidSOS Ready partner, NICE has integrated its NICE Inform Elite suite of modular applications for incident information management solutions, with the RapidSOS emergency response data platform and has deployed the new solution at multiple 911 centers…
No Shawnee County 911 calls went unanswered Sunday evening because of an AT&T outage that affected dispatching centers in Shawnee and Sedgwick counties.
For an unknown amount of time, people calling 911 in Sedgwick County weren’t getting through due to the outage, which occurred because AT&T was doing work on the system involved, that county reported in a news release Monday.
“Once Sedgwick County 911 Emergency Communications were made aware of the situation, staff logged into the back-up phones and started taking inbound calls that were re-routed to that number,” Sedgwick County said in the release…
People using 911 in Fairfax County can now provide medical details and other information to help first responders know more about a situation before they arrive.
The county rolled out the change on July 1, allowing people to sign up ahead of time with information about a resident who has a special need or needs ranging from anything from Alzheimer’s to autism.
“It could make the difference between someone being saved and not saved,” 911 systems administrator Steve McMurrer told Tysons Reporter…
The City of Berkeley Police Department has an exciting opportunity, and is currently accepting applications for Public Safety Dispatcher I. This is a trainee position – learn to receive 911 system emergency and non-emergency calls, dispatch assignments according to police and fire procedures, operate various dispatch center equipment including computer terminals, maintain records, and perform other related work as assigned.
Typical Duties Include:
Answers 911 emergency and non-emergency calls, and a variety of other public safety telephone and radio communications;
Obtains essential information from reporting parties about the nature of the emergency and enters all calls for service;
Responds to inquiries by obtaining information from various government agency databases; enters control codes and searches files to research and provide information…
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.
