by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 4, 2019 | Comm Center News
Two weeks ago I sent a FOIA request to Greene County requesting
information related to the training/certification of County staff
working in the Greene County Emergency Communications Center (ECC). I
was not required to tell the County why I was making this request;
however, in my request I shared, “…my concern is that the GCECC has not
been minimally staffed at all times by trained dispatchers, something
not shared with Greene County residents, leaving them without the
service they deserve and putting first responders at risk due to lack of
mandated training.”
As it is unclear….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 4, 2019 | Comm Center News
On July 4, 2018, San Juan County 911 received a report of a victim falling 40 feet down a rocky bluff on Obstruction Island and into the water. That call launched a prolonged and complex rescue that involved multiple agencies, presented numerous challenges, and recently led to the San Juan County Dispatch Team receiving the 2019 WA State Telecommunicator Team of the Year Award from the WA Chapters of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials and the National Emergency Number Association.
Sheriff Ron Krebs marvels at the difficulties faced, “This was at night in a remote location with limited….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 4, 2019 | Comm Center News
A Transit Police dispatcher says he’s owed big time for getting fired
after watching a TV account of the arraignment of a woman charged with
climbing onto the base of the Statue of Liberty in a political protest
and telling coworkers she “should go back to Africa,” – because he
wasn’t being racist, but merely expressing his political opinions and
that if anybody’s being racist, it’s the T for forcing his firing
because he’s white.
Mark Hayes is suing both the MBTA and IXP Corp., which has…
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 4, 2019 | Comm Center News
The Amherst Police Department is accepting applications for the position of part-time dispatcher, according to a news release.
Applications are available at the Amherst Police Department, 911 N. Lake St., and must be returned by 4 p.m., Oct. 14, the release said.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 4, 2019 | Comm Center News
Since 2015, Hunter Sanders has been dispatching and assisting
troopers in what is commonly referred to as Area III (Southwest
Indiana). Currently of Ellettsville, Hunter lives with his wife Colte
and their 4-month-old son.
A graduate of Edgewood High School, Hunter joined the Indiana State
Police after working in different jobs that included Barista work at
Starbucks and another job at the IGA Grocery Store.
Hunter says…
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 4, 2019 | Comm Center News
A 911 dispatcher for the Lee County Sheriff’s Office has been
suspended for two days and placed on six months of disciplinary
probation after she told a man to dispose of evidence. Authorities say that Amanda Kinzler called a man on a recorded landline who was surrounded by Fort Myers police officers.
She told the man, who was not identified, to “get rid of it,”
referring to marijuana he had on him. He told her that he threw in the
bushes, and she confirmed that he
