The Lake County Board of Commissioners honored two Lake County 911 Central Dispatchers for the County’s 911 Dispatcher of the Year award.
The 2019 award went to Kimberly Hodges, while the 2020 award went to Tera Phillipp.
The Commissioners postponed giving Hodges her award because of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The 911 Dispatcher of the Year is chosen by their peers, and honors dispatchers that go above and beyond the call of duty…
LINCOLN – Pressured by the Lincoln Police Union, public officials and concerned residents, Twin River Casino has updated its security system so that Lincoln police officers are equipped with radios that are compatible with the casino.
In March, Lincoln Det. Kyle Wingate, IBPO Local 435 president, wrote a letter to the Lincoln Town Council addressing public safety concerns, noting that the Police Department’s radio equipment was inoperable inside Twin River, forcing officers to rely on cell phones to communicate when called there to respond to an incident…
Municipal officials showed off a $5.8 million new emergency communication centers at the Frank X. Graves Public Safety Complex on Wednesday morning that is expected to speed up police and fire response time.
Emergency calls will be received at the unified communications center, which brings dispatch for police, fire, ambulance, and public works under one roof, eliminating the need to transfer calls.
“Today we’re consolidating, centralizing, digitizing, doing things we should be doing in the 21st century,” said mayor Andre Sayegh…
As we planned for the FirstNet network, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) worked together with the public safety community to understand their critical communications needs. To make use of mobile broadband for daily operations and emergencies, first responders told us they needed the network to be available when and where they needed it most.
The FirstNet Authority incorporated this important feedback on coverage into our Request for Proposals for the network. We ensured that terrestrial cell sites would be deployed where public safety needed them most according to each State’s plan. We also enabled innovative solutions for coverage by incorporating public safety deployables or portable cell sites into the FirstNet offering. READ FULL ARTICLE
COLLIER COUNTY
During an emergency, 911 dispatchers are the first line of defense for people in trouble.
And now, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office is working to train the next generation of dispatchers to do this important work.
The sheriff’s office partnered with the Immokalee Foundation to get 11 kids interested in 911 communications this summer through the brand new “Public Safety Career Academy.”
The students will learn police codes, emergency dispatch center technology and how to respond to someone calling 911 in distress…
