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
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 3, 2019 | Comm Center News
A new software system has upgraded the way Berkeley County S.C., public safety agencies share data and eliminates the duplication that occurred until the deployment of the system last month.
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 3, 2019 | Comm Center News
The Knox County Regional Communication Center issued a farewell Thursday afternoon for longtime public safety official Linwood Lothrop.
The center issued a farewell over the radio to all public safety departments and then Lothrop was greeted with a line of police officers, firefighters and other public safety members outside the communications center.
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 3, 2019 | Comm Center News
OSAGE COUNTY — The Osage County
emergency operations, or 911 center, and the Osage Ambulance District
were at odds — each posting subliminal messages on Facebook that appear
to insult the other.
KRCG spoke with both sides, though the ambulance district was willing to speak a little more.
The director there, Joshua Krull, provided KRCG with documentation he said shows he’s spent more than….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 3, 2019 | Comm Center News
When the idea of a co-located, meaning
shared, 911 facility was first voiced back in 2016, it seemed like the
perfect solution to a hard-learned lesson. The floods of 2015 had, in
fact, provided a trial run.
When the Blanco River went on its deadly rampage in May of 2015, it forced the county’s telecommunicators to move from the Law Enforcement Center on Uhland Road in San Marcos to the San Marcos Police Department – a location that was also low-lying but far from the worst of the flooding.
Kharley Smith, then the county’s emergency management director, told …
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