by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
Editor’s note: This month, in honor of Black History Month, The Herald is highlighting voices in the region who you may not have heard about. These are Black people who quietly have an impact in our communities. Today The Herald is featuring Telatha Graham, a 911 dispatcher in Chester County.
Telatha Graham recalls the time she found herself in the middle of a personal crisis while straddling the line between Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 21, 2021 | Jobs
The SFPD is seeking a Police Dispatcher to facilitate essential communications in person, via phone, and over the radio with both on- and off-campus law enforcement as well as the public. In addition to radio dispatching, the Police Dispatcher is responsible for department record keeping and providing assistance at a high profile front desk that requires shift work with periodic rotations, including nights and weekends…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 20, 2021 | Comm Center News
Local public servants received top honors for bravery and much-deserved praise at the 2021 Valor Awards on Wednesday, Feb. 17, held at the Infinite Energy Forum. The event, hosted by Gwinnett Chamber and presented by Mobile Communications America and Motorola Solutions, honored the men and women who have performed heroic and extraordinary acts to protect and serve the citizens of Gwinnett…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2021 | Comm Center News
HALIFAX, N.S. — Nova Scotia RCMP 911 police dispatchers will soon answer emergency calls out of a new communications centre at its headquarters in Dartmouth.
In a news release Friday, Nova Scotia RCMP said its dispatchers will begin working out of the operation communications centre on Wednesday.
Glen Byrne, commander of the Nova Scotia RCMP OCC, said when the force began this project in 2018, they travelled to dispatch centres across the country to see what is considered best practices…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2021 | Comm Center News
In her five years as a telecommunicator in Florida, Christine Sebris answered more than 30,000 911 calls, but never had a call like Saturday. “It was around 5 am,” Sebris said. “I called a woman with uterine contractions during labor.” In the 911 phone recording, I hear Sebris talking first to the woman in labor and then to her roommate. “She says she’s bleeding,” she told her roommate. “Did her water break?” Sebris followed up when her roommate said her water wasn’t broken. “She says her contractions are back-to-back. Did she time them or do they feel that way?” Sebris gave birth to her daughter two years ago. So I understood the worries and fears I was hearing over the phone…
