by ECC Editor | May 4, 2021 | Comm Center News
CHARLOTTE — Charlotte’s City Manager revealed details in his proposed budget Monday.
The proposed $2.7 billion budget does not include a tax increase, but it does introduce several new programs, and moves funding away from some familiar projects.
The city is not moving forward with a joint communications center in north Charlotte because it is no longer needed. Instead, the tens of millions of dollars slated for it will go to fire infrastructure, finishing the Cross Charlotte Trail and Charlotte’s Strategic Energy Plan… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | May 3, 2021 | Comm Center News
FORT SILL, Oklahoma (April 30, 2021) — When a 911 telephone call is made from a Fort Sill 442- or 558- prefix, the emergency call now goes directly to the Directorate of Emergency Services’ Emergency Communications Center (ECC).
In the past, these calls went to the city of Lawton dispatch center at the Great Plains Technology Center. There, Fort Sill General Schedule (GS) dispatchers manned a military police terminal and relayed emergency information to the installation. Although the Fort Sill dispatchers’ job was to focus on installation emergency services, with the volume of calls received it was sometimes difficult to discern if the call was for a post or city emergency, said Hilaree Straka, DES Emergency Communications Division chief… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | May 3, 2021 | Comm Center News
(ABC4) – Law enforcement across the Beehive State are asking communities two questions: who are you going to call when faced with an incident? and do you know when to do so?
According to the Logan Cache Police Department, when dealing with an incident that involves immediate danger that is when you should dial 911.
“It’s so important to be educated on the Do’s and Don’ts of calling 9-1-1,” they add… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | May 3, 2021 | Comm Center News
Three Massachusetts police officers and a dispatcher are earning praise for preventing a Florida grandmother from losing $25,000 to a scammer.
Dracut Sgt. Lawrence Flynn, Lt. Wilmer Buote, Detective Megan Farley and dispatcher Andrew Talmacci went into action on April 3 when a woman called Dracut and Miami police to say her mother had sent the money to an address in Dracut, Chief Peter Bartlett told The Lowell Sun for a story Friday… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | May 1, 2021 | Comm Center News
t was early Monday, April 12, the beginning of National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week, set aside each year to recognize the contributions of 911 emergency dispatchers.
Clay Patterson, who became Carroll County’s new E-911 director only 49 days earlier, had given his crew of telecommunicators a sort of treat: they could dress in casual clothes for that early morning shift. And he would sit in with the dispatchers as they handled calls for what promised to be an ordinary night of complaints about loud neighbors or officers reporting routine traffic stops… READ MORE
