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…
The European Union’s BroadWay project, which paves a technological path for interoperable, cross-border public safety broadband, has taken another step toward reality, with the project recently demonstrating the results of its prototyping phase for buyers in EU member countries.
According to a Project BroadWay release, it held a prototype demonstration on June 7 with suppliers Airbus, Leonardo and Frequentis.
Project BroadWay already has 11 EU member states involved as procurers, led by ASTRID, which provides emergency and security communication services in Belgium. The prototype demo gathered interest from an additional seven member states and three associated countries, Project BroadWay said…
Volusia County is getting ready to ditch a 30-year-old communications system and replace outdated 9-1-1 equipment and police radios at a cost of more than $24 million.
Volusia County Council members on Tuesday approved the contract for Communications International of Vero Beach to implement the new digital communications system which will be used by fire, police and emergency medical services throughout the county…
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Two of the largest Police Departments in North Texas are working to overcome a national shortage of 9-1-1 dispatchers.
The shortage has resulted in several delayed responses from Dallas Police. City Council woman Cara Mendelsohn said Tuesday that department leadership has taken action to implement a signing bonus for dispatchers.
“But we’ve got to do more so we have a stable staffing of professionals,” said Mendelsohn.
The department also assigned its class of new recruits to work dispatch…
TUCSON (KVOA) – Tucson’s Public Safety Communications Department is undergoing a major transformation, following an outside report last year that uncovered numerous problems with staffing, morale and training.
The News 4 Tucson Investigators have also been tracking your concerns about the wait times at the city’s 9-1-1 center for the past three years.
Last year, the city had third-party access problems within the public safety communications center.
Their report found, among other things, two cultures in one workforce, with a rivalry between dispatchers serving the police department along with the fire department…
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