The Hutchinson-Reno County Emergency Communications team has been around for 40 years. The joint system was still a seven-digit number when they combined in 1983. The first 911 system was set up in Reno County in 1985. On Saturday, the dispatch center celebrated their 40th anniversary with a ceremony inside the Law Enforcement Center.
ALLEJO – The Vallejo City Council voted Tuesday to install new portable buildings next to the current police headquarters to house the city’s emergency dispatch center instead of the location that city staff had previously selected at the waterfront police building.
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced a combined $55 million in state funding was awarded to 57 counties and New York City for upgrades to the state’s emergency communications systems and public safety answering points. The funding was made available by two grants under the Statewide Interoperable Communications Grant program, which provides reimbursement to eligible counties to improve their emergency communication systems, as well as providing funding to further enhance public safety call-taking and dispatching abilities.
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — The City of Sioux Falls and Minnehaha County commissioners met Tuesday to finalize a joint-powers agreement that will place Metro Communications under the management umbrella of the City. But this administrative move isn’t the only big change awaiting the longtime 911 center. Emergency dispatchers are getting ready to move into their new headquarters at the Public Safety Campus in northeast Sioux Falls.
The Outagamie County Sheriff’s Office has been pushing for a new 911 communications center for years and after some pushback it’s finally underway.
A 9-1-1 call log shows the victim of an alleged rape at a New Orleans school had to wait three hours for an NOPD officer to arrive.
Amid questions about how calls are prioritized, the head of the 9-1-1 call center says he didn’t know anything about the incident.
