On Friday July 22, Communications Director Christina Mortimer graduated from the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials Institute (APCO), Certified Public Safety Executive (CPE) program. The graduation ceremony was held at the Shores Resort in Daytona Beach Shores. Chief David K Williams was present for the ceremony.
The department is the first in Union County and the fifth in New Jersey to earn accreditation for the entire agency and the dispatch center, the chief said.
The Police-Fire-EMS Communications Center of the Westfield Police Department has earned a prestigious distinction, the police chief announced.
U.S. House members yesterday expressed support for legislation that would provide as much as $10 billion in federal funding to pay for a transition to IP-based next-generation 911 technology—as well as extend the FCC’s authority to conduct spectrum auctions—but postponed a vote on the bill.
A day-old baby girl died earlier this month, after D.C. 911 dispatched emergency crews to the wrong address for a newborn in cardiac distress.
Safety advocate Dave Statter, on his Statter911 website, said the parents of the newborn woke up, on July 3, to find their daughter not breathing and called 911.
Palm Bay residents who call 911 seeking help during emergencies — think active shooters, sexual assaults, even drowning swimmers — are waiting an average of 2 minutes longer for police officers to respond than they did in 2020.
The thinly spread Palm Bay Police Department ranks 241st out of Florida’s 246 municipal police departments in number of sworn officers (1.31) per 1,000 residents, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reports. That’s 161 officers serving a city of 122,765 people, according to 2021 statistics.
Iredell County Emergency Communications training coordinator Jody Sherrill was recognized recently by the Board of County Commissioners for being named the N.C. Association of Public Safety Communication Officials Trainer of the Year for 2022.
