by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
Shrewsbury – Town Meeting members met for a Special Town Meeting Sept. 29 to vote on a measure to approve $42 million debt exclusion to fund a new police station and public safety radio system. That request was resoundingly approved. Next, the voters will have their say when the question is presented on the Nov. 3 ballot.
The existing police station, which was built in 197, has according to Police Chief Kevin E. Anderson, significantly outlived its intended lifetime….
by ECC Editor | Oct 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
MANSFIELD – H. Lee Robinson announced his retirement from the Mansfield Division of Police effective Tuesday as a 911 operator.
Robinson was hired by the Mansfield Fire Department on July 8, 1988 as a dispatcher and transferred to the Public Safety Communications Center as a telecommunicator in May 1991 when public safety dispatching was combined with 911 to form one communications center… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
With the local economy shaken and city revenues on a steep decline, Palo Alto is preparing to reconsider its most ambitious infrastructure project: the new public safety building that is slated to go up in the California Avenue business district.
The city has recently gone out to bid on the project, which has an estimated price tag of $115 million. City Manager Ed Shikada said Monday that the city expects to get the bids back in the coming weeks, giving the council a chance to approve construction work for the project before the end of the year…
by ECC Editor | Oct 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) – Local 911 dispatchers said they felt the Harrisonburg explosion at the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Emergency Communications Center on Saturday and within seconds, got a call volume like no other.
On Saturday between 8:20 a.m. and 3 p.m., HRECC received 504 incoming and outgoing phone calls after the explosion… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Oct 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Twelve Kentucky State Police telecommunicators from throughout the Commonwealth were recognized at graduation ceremonies for the sixteenth class of the agency’s in-house Telecommunications Academy.
The Post 3 graduate of the 16th KSP Telecommunications Academy included Carole D. Waldrop, of Bowling Green. She is the spouse of Johnathan Waldrop and a graduate of Daymar College… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 19, 2020 | Comm Center News
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) – A just released report (which you can find here) paints a dysfunctional operation at the Public Safety Communications Department in Tucson. The PSCD dispatches 911 calls for both police and fire departments.
The Tucson City Manager, Michael Ortega, called for the report last summer amid “concerns about the workplace and environment” which were brought to him by the employees who worked there…
