by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
PATERSON — In an effort to salvage a $7.2 million boondoggle, city officials are now pursuing plans to convert a South Paterson industrial building into a public safety communications center.
The city’s original goal had been to use the building as a hub for local entrepreneurs who wanted to start catering companies and other food-related businesses but lacked cooking facilities. That plan — which stretched across the administrations of four different mayors — stalled as costs far exceeded the original $3 million estimate, officials said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
A dispatcher with the Tulsa Police and Fire Departments died on Tuesday following complications from the novel coronavirus. Joey Phillips, who started with the police department in 1997, was 52, according to a Facebook post by the Tulsa Police Department.
“It is with [a] heavy heart that the Tulsa Police Department shares the passing of one of our dispatchers,” the post reads. “Yesterday evening, November 17th, 2020, dispatcher Joey Phillips passed due to complications of COVID-19″…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 20, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Bruce Fitzgerald, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority In Hazleton, a small city with a population of 25,000 nestled in the rural…
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
LIHU‘E — County dispatchers moved into a newly renovated communications center at the Lihu‘e Kaua‘i Police Department headquarters Wednesday.
For the past three months, as renovations and upgrades were underway, dispatchers worked from a temporary location while continuing to service all calls uninterrupted through 911 and the non-emergency lines…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 19, 2020 | Comm Center News
Rushing to catch up in a digital age, emergency services personnel in Greater Sudbury are poised to make up a great deal of ground in the next couple of years with the implementation of Next Generation 911, or NG911.
Paul Notman, manager of communications and information technology for the Greater Sudbury Police Service, and Craig Maki, manager of emergency communications for the police service, made a presentation to council on the progress of mandatory NG911 upgrades, which are expected to vastly improve communication with mobile devices, as well as location accuracy…
