IONIA — Ionia County Central Dispatch is warning the public of a scam involving a shirt sale.
Ionia County residents, as well as residents from other counties around the state, are receiving messages that claim to be from Ionia County Central Dispatch, or other dispatch centers or public safety agencies. Ionia County Central Dispatch issued a press release Monday, June 20.
A new deadline is looming for Fayette County it its efforsts to upgrade the radio and paging systems used by law enforcement, emergency services and fire departments as well as county road and conservation employees.
Motorola plans to increase prices in the new fiscal year, which begins July 1, the County Board of Supervisors learned Monday morning.
Erie County 911 emergency call handlers will receive additional training and undergo more frequent call monitoring after two high-profile incidents involving mishandled calls during and after the May 14 Tops mass shooting.
One 911 call taker with Central Police Services and one emergency medical response dispatcher were subsequently fired following complaints and investigations that determined the employees improperly hung up on callers in distress.
When someone calls 9-1-1, seconds matter. That’s why the first question a 9-1-1 dispatcher asks is, “What is the address of the emergency?”
A decade ago, if someone called and didn’t know their location, emergency call centers would send out police officers with their sirens on and tell the caller, “Tell us when you can hear the siren.”
The lawsuit was filed in federal court by attorney Lawrence E. Bolind Jr., on behalf of Kelly D. Titchenell, the daughter and administratrix of the estate of Diana L. Kronk. It names Greene County, Greene County Emergency Management/911 Communications Center and its employees Robert J. “Jeff” Rhodes and Leon Price as defendants.
A House subcommittee this week recommended approval of a bipartisan amendment that would provide as much as $10 billion to upgrade 911 centers nationwide to next-generation 911 (NG911) technology as part of legislation that would have the FCC auction at least 200 MHz of spectrum in the 3.1-3.45 GHz band.
