by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman said Monday that it won’t be long before the new emergency communications center will be up and running.
Newman said if all goes as planned dispatchers will move to the new building and began to receive and dispatch emergency calls there.
In addition to having new dispatch consoles, radios and panels, the facility which is located on Lela Street, behind the Jasper County Jail, will have a small kitchen along with showers and other provisions for long stays during hurricanes, storms and other disaster…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
WYTHEVILLE, Va. (WSET) — A Virginia State Police Wytheville Division Dispatcher earned statewide honors at the VSP Superintendent’s Award Ceremony.
Dispatcher Alexander J. Dolinger was presented with the Virginia State Police 2019 Telecommunicator of the year award last week at VSP’s administrative headquarters in Chesterfield County…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
UPDATE: The communication system appears to be back working at this time. There has been no other information on what caused the outage.
ORIGINAL STORY
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) – The primary communication system for emergency responders across much of Oklahoma has gone offline.
On Tuesday morning, the 800mhz radio system used by many agencies, including all of Comanche County emergency agencies, crashed for an unknown reason…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 27, 2020 | Comm Center News, Press Release
The Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies, Inc. (“iCERT”) today publicly announced the formation of a comprehensive effort to promote effective integration and use of data in public safety operations; the Data Integration Initiative (“DII”). The DII will address new and more effective ways to perform mission critical operations as significant amounts of data from an increasing number of source points are generated and delivered to public safety communication centers. The DII has strategic, operational, and educational goals including recommendations related to core areas impacting the future of public safety data such as technology, analysis, management, security, privacy, and funding…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 26, 2020 | Jobs
JOB SUMMARY: This position is one that mandates great responsibility and reliability by the applicant due to the nature of the duties performed. They provide communications of a public safety nature for the university police as well as surrounding law enforcement agencies and other emergency response agencies utilizing a multitude of modalities. These include, but are not limited to multi-frequency radios, telephones, personal contact, and the National/Georgia Crime Information Center databases…