McComb Police Chief Damian Gatlin brought more staffing issues to the city board’s attention at Tuesday’s work session.
In addition to four vacancies in the detective division, Gatlin said he has five full-time positions available in dispatch, for which people keep dropping out during training.
Pending county board approval, Piatt County will soon have a new 9-1-1 director.
A notice sent out by the county on Friday stated that a short reception would be held following the Sept. 11 county board meeting to welcome Tim Furman as the new 9-1-1 director.
Furman, a dispatcher for DeWitt County CenCom since September of 2017, confirmed the hire on Facebook.
“I’m very excited as to what the future holds,
BEREA, Ohio — For many Berea residents, Anne Boone has been the reassuring voice they hear when they call the Berea Police Department.
Even after dispatch services were regionalized in Strongsville five years ago, “people call and ask for me,” said Boone, who retired at the end of her shift at noon on Aug. 21 after 35 years as a dispatcher and five years as a clerk with the BPD.
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On a recent weekday afternoon on an upper-level floor of the Montgomery County Hospital District’s administrative building in south Conroe, dispatcher Andrew Scroggins received a call from a woman about 8 miles away who feared she was suffering a stroke.
Closely following a procedural script, Scroggins asked the woman on the other end about her symptoms and instructed her on what to do as MCHD paramedics made their way to her home in The Woodlands.
In her long career as an EMS dispatcher in Halton and Peel, Laura Grant “has touched innumerable lives,” according to her family.
Those people, and hundreds more of Grant’s family members, friends and colleagues, are expected today (Sept. 6) as a celebration of life will be held for the 57-year-old Burlington mother of two and grandmother of one.
In R.H. Herron’s debut thriller, Stolen Things, the reader meets Laurie Ahmadi, a 911 dispatcher whose work day suddenly gets much more personal when she answers a call and finds it is her teenage daughter, JoJo, who has been drugged and raped and is pleading for help. Even though the entire police department, led by Laurie’s police chief husband, springs into action
