Georgetown Police Department Announces Retirement of Dispatcher Lucille Manning (MA)

Georgetown Police Department Announces Retirement of Dispatcher Lucille Manning (MA)

GEORGETOWN — Chief Donald C. Cudmore and the Georgetown Police Department announce the retirement of Communications Dispatcher Lucille Manning after more than three decades of dedicated service to the community.

Dispatcher Manning was hired in 1987 in the Georgetown Communications Center, which serves the Town’s 9-1-1 system for the Police and Fire Departments and assists in all communications for non-emergency Town departments.

Dispatcher Manning served as a member of the Domestic Violence Crisis Intervention Team for many years and is responsible for the Department’s Domestic Violence Program…

Otero County, Alamogordo and Cloudcroft to establish public safety answering point (NM)

A first step in the process was the approval of a joint powers agreement which the Alamogordo City Commission discussed and approved at its regular meeting on June 22.

The joint powers agreement creates the Tularosa Basin Dispatch Authority which would operate the public safety answering point to serve as a combined dispatch center for the City of Alamogordo and Otero County…

I-TEAM: Continuing the Coverage: Aiken County 911 (SC)

I-TEAM: Continuing the Coverage: Aiken County 911 (SC)

AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) – Aiken County Sheriff Michael Hunt, Administrator Clay Killian, and others are all being sued in federal court. It’s the latest development in our I-Team investigation – Aiken County 911.

One year ago we brought you the story of Barbara Roberts. The Aiken County woman who suffered what her family calls a minor heart attack in 2019. But after documented failures from 911 dispatch to EMS Roberts later suffered a brain injury. She held on for two more years bed-ridden in a nursing home but died a few weeks ago in hospice care…

The 911 operator did not send an officer from Fort Worth on call and 3 people died, according to a press report (TX)

The 911 operator did not send an officer from Fort Worth on call and 3 people died, according to a press report (TX)

An overworked 911 caller failed to dispatch a Fort Worth police officer on a June 1 domestic call that ended in double murder and suicide, according to a news report.

Former 911 operator Kate Colley told KXAS-TV the stressed 911 dispatcher received a call from Holly Beverly, who told him her ex-husband was on her way to her apartment in western Fort. Worth to hurt him.

The operator did not send an officer because the suspect was not yet at the scene, Colley told the TV station…

Southeast Communications 911 Center in Beatrice to add Richardson County (NE)

Southeast Communications 911 Center in Beatrice to add Richardson County (NE)

By adding Richardson County, Lang says two additional dispatchers would be added, allowing the Southeast Communications Center to provide 24-hour coverage with three persons, seven-days-a-week. He said the center is looking at options for remodeling, or possibly other sites.
“It’s a situation where the technology and the requirements for staffing is changing at the state level. It’s very difficult for smaller places to be able to economically and staffing-wise, provide the level of service people expected on 9-1-1…