by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
During a 2014 study on public safety communication, the state noticed a few deficiencies.
“Those deficiencies were shown of being the 800-plus radio systems, despaired radio systems owned and controlled either through the state, county, local or volunteer agencies across the state and those type systems in a legacy environment prevent us from having true interoperability,” Director of Upper Missouri River Regional Dispatch Center Derrick Walker said…
by ECC Editor | Jul 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
In 2008, Pittsburg County and the city of McAlester began working together to improve the 911 Emergency Service for the residents of Pittsburg County. The result of that effort, was that each town, city, rural area, and visitor could now request and get help by calling 911. This improvement included establishing a countywide addressing system, where each road was named, every house assigned a number based on distance, then a geo-database was built that could produce a map to find the locations… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
Union County officials are moving forward on a project to overhaul the 911 dispatch system.
“It’s just a total upgrade,” said Union County Emergency Management Director Curt Clayton. “This system will be the state-of-the-art system.”
The project will involve buying all new equipment and “redoing the whole 911 system,” Clayton noted.
The county’s current 911 system is working, but some parts are out of date, he said. Parts for some of the system cannot be purchased anymore, and the software is also out of date, Clayton said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
AURORA, Colo. — Aurora’s 911 Communications Center is being inundated with angry calls and threats regarding the Elijah McClain case, bogging down the call system and slowing down public safety response.
On social media, a call was put out to call the non-emergency line for Aurora police to speak out in the McClain investigation.
But Tina Buneta, Aurora’s public safety communications director, said some calls are intended to disrupt…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
CRESTVIEW —Okaloosa County officials plan to issue a request for proposals to banks that will compete for the right to loan the county a projected $20 million for the replacement of inadequate emergency services communications equipment.
That plan received the County Commission’s unanimous approval Tuesday. County officials intend to pay off the loan with local option half-cent sales tax revenue…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
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