Two members of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office received statewide recognition during the the Virginia Sheriffs’ Association Annual Conference on Sept. 20 in Virginia Beach.
The VSA 2022 Dispatcher of the Year award was presented to Loudoun’s Molly Rau. She is assigned to the night shift at the Emergency Communications Center and has been a Sheriff’s Office employee for nearly three years. Rau is certified in crisis intervention training and is already a communications training officer.
ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. — Public safety workers and public officials in the tri-county area were mourning the unexpected death Monday of Essex County Emergency Services Director Max Thwaits III.
Thwaits, 40, of AuSable Forks, died of heart failure around 2 a.m. Monday at the University of Vermont Health Network Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh.
The Lenexa Police Department uses new technology to keep people safe. It’s called SPIDR Tech and Lenexa is one of the first departments in the country to use it. The technology sends text messages to select callers after speaking to a 911 dispatcher.
A Republican senator this week introduced a bill calling for a mid-band spectrum auction with proceeds being used to fund the FCC’s “rip and replace” program, but—unlike legislation passed by the House—the current language would not provide any funding for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployments.
Intrado, a longtime key player in the 911 industry, has sold its safety business to the Stonepeak investment firm for $2.4 billion, but Intrado will retain its Digital Workflows unit, according to a press release issued yesterday.
For more than four decades, Intrado Safety has played a crucial role in delivering 911 calls from citizens to public-safety answering points (PSAPs)—a role it is expected to continue to play under the ownership of Stonepeak, according to Intrado President and CEO John Shlonsky.
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
