by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 8, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Public safety represents a growing challenge for cities around the globe.
As urban populations grow, smart cities are leveraging new digital technologies to monitor and optimise water and energy consumption, enhance citizen access to services, create effective transportation infrastructures and deliver the city-wide connectivity that citizens and businesses need.
The building blocks of smart cities are 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) /cloud. There is no doubt that to carry the weight of the smart city of the future, the mobile network will need to be fast, responsive and stable to handle a vast amount of data…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 8, 2021 | Jobs
Receives and dispatches emergency and routine calls for police, fire, ambulance, and other emergency services by performing the following duties.Essential Duties and Responsibilities Receives and screens incoming calls for law enforcement, fire, medical, or other emergency services. Questions callers to determine location and seriousness of emergency and response needed. Enters information into computer-aided dispatch system.
Operates two-way radio and/or other communications equipment to dispatch police, fire, medical, and other personnel and equipment and to relay instructions or information to remote units. Provides pre-arrival instructions to caller…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 8, 2021 | Comm Center News
NICE today announced that it has opened nominations for the 2021 PSAPs’ Finest Awards, an annual recognition program for emergency communications (ECC) professionals now in its sixteenth year. Awards are presented each year in the following categories: Lifetime Achievement, Communications Center Director, Line Supervisor, Technician, Trainer, Telecommunicator, Innovator, and PSAP of the Year. For 2021, NICE is also adding an Above & Beyond award to acknowledge the exemplary contributions of front-line emergency communications professionals during these particularly challenging times…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 8, 2021 | Comm Center News
A dispatcher for Southwestern N.H. District Fire Mutual Aid faces felony domestic violence charges for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend over the course of their four-year relationship.
Colby A. Howard, 21, of Spofford, was indicted last week by a Cheshire County grand jury on three counts of second-degree assault, a class B felony. Prior to the indictment, Howard was arrested on the charges in August, and released on personal recognizance bail. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, according to information provided by the court…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 7, 2021 | Comm Center News
A dispatcher received a call for a large pizza but quickly realized the woman was really calling about domestic abuse.
‘I would like to order a pizza’
When an Ohio police dispatcher picked up the phone for a 911 call, only to hear a woman asking for a pizza, he thought it was a wrong number.
“You called 911 to order a pizza?” the dispatcher, Tim Teneyck, asked, according to NBC News…
