Los Angeles County continued its push Tuesday to re-think the 9-1-1 system, propelled by a care-first, jails-last approach to emergency calls for service across the region.
The Board of Supervisors unanimously directed the Department of Mental Health to begin identifying ways to shift mental-health crisis calls away from law enforcement and toward mental health services personnel… READ MORE
Pendleton County Emergency Management Dispatcher Angie Wright was awarded the Kentucky 911 Telecommunicator of the Year at the Kentucky Emergency Services Conference Awards Banquet.
“I am honored that I was chosen for this award by the APCO committee. I love my job and to be able to serve my community,” said Wright about the honor… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
Cumulus Radio Bloomington has teamed up with Carle BroMenn Medical Center, to bring you a live, virtual Chase for Champions event on Thursday, October 29th.
Chase for Champions is a community event centered around the service of Public Safety Responders in the McLean County and El Paso areas. Firefighters, police officers, emergency medical service providers and 911 telecommunicators will be recognized and honored for the work and support they provide in our communities… READ MORE
Emergency call systems in more than a dozen states went out for as long as an hour Monday night, with only rumors circulating as to which company is to blame.
Twitter accounts of police departments in 14 states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington — began notifying their followers of the outages Monday evening, along with 10-digit phone numbers that could be used instead of 911. Phone and SMS-based emergency calling were affected… READ MORE
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is seeking to consolidate its training, dispatch, and emergency operations services due to what they describe as outdated infrastructure, security and safety concerns, and critical space constraints.
The first step is to study the possibility of such a project.
The county’s $908 million fiscal year 2021 budget, which was given approval Sept. 23 by the board of commissioners, includes $1 million in fund balance for a feasibility study that will examine the building of a new state-of-the-art, high-security facility that would house the sheriff office’s dispatch center, a regional use of force training center, the sheriff’s office operations center and the county’s 9/11 emergency operations center…
