by ECC Editor | Jan 7, 2021 | Opinions
Recent objections to a proposal to move Ripon’s dispatch center from Ripon City Hall to Fond du Lac County have come in the form of first-person testimonials which, while gratifying in their endorsement of Ripon’s stellar emergency personnel, unwittingly make the case for transferring the service to the county.
“I had (or I witnessed) an emergency,” the argument goes. “Ripon police showed up almost immediately and, because EMTs followed not far behind, a life may have been saved”… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
Mountain Valley Emergency Communications Center (MVECC), a regional public safety answering point serving the communities of New Providence, Summit, and Millburn, New Jersey, announces the implementation of Motorola Solutions CommandCentral Citizen Input, an application which will allow 9-1-1 callers to send pictures and video or “Incident Related Imagery” from an emergency scene to first responders through the 9-1-1 system. MVECC is the first public safety answering point in the state and the first in the northeastern part of the nation to operationalize this new public safety solution…
by ECC Editor | Jan 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
HARTFORD, Conn. — A retired Connecticut State Police trooper who was among the first to respond to the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School has died of COVID-19, according to multiple police officials.
The CSP says retired Trooper First Class Patrick Dragon, of Brooklyn, Connecticut, died Saturday at Hartford Hospital.
Dragon, 50, retired from the state police on Feb. 1, 2018, and was working as a deputy chief of the East Brooklyn Fire Department and a police dispatcher in Foster, Rhode Island, before his death… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
On Dec. 27, 2020, at about 5:30 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the 3800 block of Walnut Drive, in the county’s jurisdiction of Eureka, to serve a Ramey Warrant for the improper use of 9-1-1.
The suspect, 67-year-old Magdeline Pereira, was wanted on charges of making annoying/harassing phone calls to 9-1-1 after making over 100 non-emergency calls to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office’s Emergency Communications Center via 9-1-1… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 3, 2021 | Comm Center News
Should Ripon move its dispatch center to Fond du Lac County?
That’s been one of the most contentious issues of 2020.
While Police Chief Bill Wallner and Ripon Area Fire District Chief Tim Saul have noted they don’t think the move would jeopardize community safety, Ripon Guardian Ambulance Service Chief John Teachout disagreed… READ MORE
