by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 3, 2020 | Comm Center News
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Dispatchers with the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office are dressing down to raise awareness and money for charities.
The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office says in a Facebook post that its dispatch has started raising money for a handful of foundations with a program that features “dress down days” throughout the year.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, on Halloween, dispatchers were allowed to dress in costumes and on Thanksgiving they were able to wear their comfy pants for a small donation to the program…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 3, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
FirstNet Timeline It wasn’t until February 2012 that Congress attached the creation of FirstNet to a bill that was signed into law on February 22,…
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by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
Direct the Legislative Research Commission staff to study county emergency dispatch call center funding; investigate causes and factors contributing to the decline of funding levels; require study to be conducted over the 2007 legislative interim; require study to include the Commonwealth’s major metropolitan areas and a representative sample of non-metropolitan counties; require study to estimate the magnitude of the decline in funding levels for emergency dispatch centers among major metropolitan areas and across the Commonwealth…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The year 2020 long will be remembered for being a turbulent year. No other in recent history spawned so many challenges for the fire service, and dispatch was far from immune. As field personnel coped with how to best respond during an epidemic, dispatchers dealt with the new reality of infection control in the communications center. The typical PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) is rife with the potential to spread germs: a confined space, which often has questionable ventilation, where telecommunicators literally sit elbow to elbow for 12 or more hours at a time, communally sharing devices, such as keyboards and chairs, and repeatedly touching common surfaces, including console surfaces, monitors, telephones and controls. In some smaller centers, headsets even might be passed from person to person during shift change…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The largest prize challenge in NIST’s history reached its culmination last month as contestants of the Tech to Protect Challenge, a software development prize competition birthed by NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research division (PSCR) with partners the First Responder Network Authority and FirstNet by AT&T, earned nearly $500K in funding for exhibiting progress toward commercialization after gaining initial funding during the May Demonstration Round contest…
