By Lori Stone, FirstNet Authority Senior Public Safety Advisor Buses taking students to and from schools in Carroll County, Maryland are now equipped with FirstNet….
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The Green Bay Police Department (GBPD) is the main law enforcement agency for the Green Bay Packers professional football games. Although Green Bay is a city of 105,000 people, nearly 80,000 fans show up to the stadium on gamedays during normal times. At games with large crowds, officers have struggled using commercial networks to communicate.
“Prior to FirstNet, we couldn’t get text messages to our officers,” said Paul Ebel, Green Bay Police’s Investigative Commander who oversees special events, including all home Packers games. “The FirstNet devices totally outperform what we had.”
Mountain Valley Emergency Communications Center (MVECC) becomes first public safety answering point in New Jersey and Northeast to accept Incident Related Imagery (IRI) from 9-1-1 callers through Motorola Solutions CommandCentral Citizen Input integration
Mountain Valley Emergency Communications Center (MVECC), a regional public safety answering point serving the communities of New Providence, Summit, and Millburn, New Jersey, announces the implementation of Motorola Solutions CommandCentral Citizen Input, an application which will allow 9-1-1 callers to send pictures and video or “Incident Related Imagery” from an emergency scene to first responders through the 9-1-1 system. MVECC is the first public safety answering point in the state and the first in the northeastern part of the nation to operationalize this new public safety solution…
EDWARDSVILLE — Local first responders have formed a committee to look at radio operability issues, according to Madison County Emergency Management Director Tony Falconio.
At the Madison County Board’s Public Safety Committee meeting on Monday, Falconio noted issues range from different communications systems to multiple 911 call centers…
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Wis. – A Sheboygan County dispatcher on Thursday, Jan. 14 took a “not so routine” 911 call, helping to deliver a baby over the phone.
In a Facebook post, the Sheboygan County Emergency Communications Center said the dispatcher — identified only as Communications Officer Chris — took the call around 9:15 a.m…
