MUSKEGON COUNTY, Mich. — Muskegon County Central Dispatch has successfully gone digital. The move from an analog dispatch system to the new digital 800 MHz system took place without issues early Tuesday morning.
The approximately $30 million project started with planning back in 2016. In May 2019, Muskegon County voters approved an increase in the monthly 911 surcharge that will remain in place until 2032. The new surcharge rate per line is $2.75.
Currently 850 of the Motorola portable units are in service. Those radios have been distributed to every police and fire department in the county and also to ambulance providers…
Every Nashua police officer will be outfitted with a body camera that activates when a gun is drawn, lights and sirens are switched on, a cruiser door is opened, or an officer is down, if aldermen give the final OK to the $1.8 million contract.
“It covers everyone from the chief on down. We will all wear them,” said Kevin Rourke, deputy chief of the Nashua Police Department.
An aldermanic panel last week supported a six-year contract with Utility of Decatur, Ga., for its BodyWorn cameras for 179 members of the force, as well as additional cameras for cruisers and the police station’s interview and booking rooms…
Crawford County has abandoned its effort to contract with Roscommon County for emergency dispatch service, Sheriff Shawn M. Kraycs reported during Thursday’s online Crawford County Board of Commissioners meeting.
“We’ve discontinued our effort to consolidate,” Sheriff Kraycs said during a budget presentation at the July 6 regular county board meeting. “We’ve shut that door for now.”
Kraycs said the main reasons for ending the plan was “not being allowed to be in some decisions” and being “left out of one major decision” involving communication equipment…
BELLEFONTE — In Centre County, there is a shortage of workers.
Specifically, there is a need for 911 Centre County Communications and Centre County Correctional Facility employees. Commissioner Steve Dershem brought the topic up during Tuesday’s commissioners’ meeting.
“We have two 24-hour facilities that are really struggling right now to maintain the employee component to be successful — our emergency communications and our correctional facility,” Dershem said. “I think as we move forward over the next couple of days, I don’t know that I would like to classify it as an emergency, but (it is) severely urgent … I would welcome conversation from our board to correct some of the deficiencies and perhaps the pay scales that are keeping us from employing the proper complement of people in those two organizations…
MARIETTA, GA — Local residents who have an interest in the inner-workings of the Cobb County Department of Public Safety are invited to participate in the agency’s annual citizens’ safety academy this fall.
The 13-session academy provides residents with an inside look at various aspects of the Department of Public Safety. During the course, participants will be provided insight into various aspects of the department, including how the police, fire, animal services and 911 departments are organized and provide safety to Cobb County residents, department officials wrote in a social media post on Monday.
Participants are asked to either live or work in Cobb County and must be at least 21 years of age…
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.
