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…
Describing the current emergency 9-1-1 system as “old and outdated,” Highland County Sheriff Donnie Barrera told the Highland County commissioners Wednesday that 9-1-1 coordinator Scott Miller and Emergency Management Director David Bushelman were in the final stages of applying for a grant to upgrade the system.
He said the cost of the upgrade was in the neighborhood of $167,000.
“It is a reimbursement grant,” Bushelman said. “It’s a 60/40…
METAIRIE – A woman was killed and another person injured when the woman’s car broke down on the Causeway and she pulled over to call 911 for help.
WWL-TV reports that after the woman pulled over in the right lane and phoned 911, dispatchers heard a crash as an SUV plowed into her vehicle.
The SUV hit her so hard it flipped into the next lane. A nearby doctor rushed out of their car to help but was unable…
