by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 29, 2022 | Comm Center News
Making sure they’ve left no stone unturned, Randolph County Commissioners met with Linn County 911 Director Shelby Creed this month to discuss 911 emergency dispatch services.
The Randolph County Commission wants to patch all the holes in its emergency system using millions of dollars in federal COVID relief funds. The county has paid for consultants and has offered new equipment to the sheriff’s department, the Moberly police department, the county’s fire departments and the Randolph County ambulance district.
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 29, 2022 | Comm Center News
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.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 29, 2022 | Comm Center News
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.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 28, 2022 | Comm Center News
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.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 28, 2022 | Comm Center News
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.
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 28, 2022 | Comm Center News
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.
