The first class passes the base 9-1-1 certification course with flying colors
May 5, 2023 – Before they even graduate high school, fourteen Cobb students have completed the base course that could lead them to a career in 9-1-1. This inaugural class was part of the Career, Technical, Agricultural Education (CTAE) program at Osborne High School, and the 14 students passed the course with an average score of 95.5.
Petersburg police received a call for help from a 26 foot aluminum boat that had tipped onto its side near the south end of Kuiu Island on April 30th. Two people were aboard, and both of them survived the sinking.
The Urban Transportation Committee was presented last Tuesday with the prospect of a second facility to operate CTECC: the Combined Transportation, Emergency and Communications Center.
Dallas officials on Monday said critical services have been restored following a widespread outage caused by last week’s ransomware attack. The Dallas Police Department and city’s websites are back online as of Sunday, Bill Zielinski, CIO for the City of Dallas, said during a city council public safety committee meeting.
The city continues to recover and restore access to its computer-assisted dispatch system.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Thirty-one minutes – that is how long it appears to have taken for police to arrive on the tragic scene where Officer Areanah Preston was shot in Avalon Park, in an incident that ultimately took her life.
But dispatchers had been alerted to a round of shots that had been fired, thanks to a high-tech gunshot detection system.
“We look at it more as an exercise and an opportunity to work together and test our technology.”
Police Chief Benjamin Moszkowicz was referring the decision to move Hawaii Fire Department’s fire and Emergency Medical Services dispatchers from Hilo’s Central Fire Station on Kinoole Street into the police’s dispatch center at 349 Kapiolani St.
