An Augusta 911 Center dispatcher has been cleared of any wrong-doing after she was heard stating she gets “to smoke weed” over a radio channel.
In a statement, the Augusta 911 Center said a thorough investigation has been done into the matter and determined the dispatcher was simply having a conversation with two other employees. On Tuesday morning, the dispatcher was heard on a radio channel stating…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) — The tape was rolling when a 911 dispatcher’s microphone accidentally went live as she seemingly admits to getting high on the job. But Augusta 911 says it’s all a misunderstanding.
It sparked a two-fold investigation, first by the Augusta 911 officials, then turned over to the city’s legal department. The city has not named the dispatcher, and neither is News 12 because the employee has not been charged with anything. Additionally, officials say an internal investigation…
Hello. This is 9-1-1. What is your emergency, this time.
A 38-year-old Bronx woman was arrested for making more than 24,200 bogus 9-1-1 calls since June for emergencies that never occurred, the Daily News has learned.
Cops busted Yogita Persaud on Friday…
TECUMSEH, Ont. — The cost for policing in Tecumseh is among the lowest in the region, but it’s being impacted by an increase in 9-1-1 misdials.
Council on Tuesday received a report on the cost for OPP service since 2020 is the final year of the town’s six-year contract.
The report says Tecumseh ranked third lowest in 2019 in cost per household for policing services in the region at $400…
A man called Unified police after sundown on a March day to report a person was lying down in a parking lot near the Pizza Hut where he worked in Millcreek. He said that person was wearing dark clothes, and told the dispatcher he was worried.
“I’d hate to see him get run over, if he hasn’t already,” the man told the dispatcher.
But when a Unified officer arrived to check out the situation…
Cybersecurity and interoperability take the spotlight in the newest update to the National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) from the Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
Released Sept. 25, the plan includes six goals and 19 objectives for meeting them. NECP builds on the past two versions, published in 2008 and 2014, and serves as a timeline of emergency communications technology’s evolution. For instance, the 2008 NECP put a focus on land mobile radios…
