The Amherst Police Department is accepting applications for the position of part-time dispatcher, according to a news release.
Applications are available at the Amherst Police Department, 911 N. Lake St., and must be returned by 4 p.m., Oct. 14, the release said.
Since 2015, Hunter Sanders has been dispatching and assisting troopers in what is commonly referred to as Area III (Southwest Indiana). Currently of Ellettsville, Hunter lives with his wife Colte and their 4-month-old son.
A graduate of Edgewood High School, Hunter joined the Indiana State Police after working in different jobs that included Barista work at Starbucks and another job at the IGA Grocery Store.
Hunter says…
OSAGE COUNTY — The Osage County emergency operations, or 911 center, and the Osage Ambulance District were at odds — each posting subliminal messages on Facebook that appear to insult the other.
KRCG spoke with both sides, though the ambulance district was willing to speak a little more.
The director there, Joshua Krull, provided KRCG with documentation he said shows he’s spent more than….
When the idea of a co-located, meaning shared, 911 facility was first voiced back in 2016, it seemed like the perfect solution to a hard-learned lesson. The floods of 2015 had, in fact, provided a trial run.
When the Blanco River went on its deadly rampage in May of 2015, it forced the county’s telecommunicators to move from the Law Enforcement Center on Uhland Road in San Marcos to the San Marcos Police Department – a location that was also low-lying but far from the worst of the flooding.
Kharley Smith, then the county’s emergency management director, told …
he Joplin Police Department’s emergency communications center is now using a form of technology that allows 911 dispatchers to receive more accurate location data from callers, particularly from those using smartphones.
The program, RapidSOS Clearinghouse, is free to authorized emergency communications centers nationwide. It works by collecting data — primarily the location of the device being used — from iPhones using at least iOS 12 and versions 4.0+ of Android phones, as well as certain apps like Uber, wearable devices and connected homes and cars, and delivering that data directly to dispatchers.
Cheryl Konarski, Joplin’s communications manager, said…
