Harvey Brownstone explores the world of 911 dispatchers with Jim Keaton, a 41-year veteran dispatcher from West Virginia. Everything you ever wanted to know about 911 but were afraid to ask!
FirstNet is a high-speed broadband communications platform dedicated to and purpose-built for first responders and the extended public safety community.
The network was launched three years ago to alleviate any congestion or communication problems that can arise in an emergency situation…
Former longtime 911 Central Dispatch Director Gay Murrell has filed a federal lawsuit alleging breach of contract as well as age and sex discrimination over her March 2020 termination. The lawsuit was filed in early March in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee in Greeneville. Murrell worked for Hawkins Central Dispatch for 27 years and spent the last 19 as the director. The 911 board voted at their March 12, 2020 meeting to terminate Murrell for breach of contract…
PSCE Signs MoI Focused on Public Safety Use of Satellite with ESA
Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE) and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a memorandum of intent (MoI) to support the utilization of satellite applications for public safety.
Under the new MoI, ESA and PSCE will work together establishing interoperable public-safety communications systems. The MoI will support the emergence of space-based mobile broadband applications in the public-safety domain. These include applications within disaster preparedness, response and resilience, situational awareness, assessments of damages, navigation-based services for tracking and coordinating rescue forces on site and for emergency vehicles…
HILLSDALE, N.J.—A proposal to outsource emergency dispatch services to Bergen County’s Public Safety Operations Center (PSOC) could save the borough more than $1 million over five years, according to the borough’s business administrator.
Council members have yet to vote on whether to outsource dispatch operations to the center—Hillsdale apparently would be the first municipality in the Pascack Valley to do so—but they discussed it at the March 9 council meeting…
