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From CBS CHICAGO on 05/16/2022 | 911 dispatcher Keith Thornton Jr. calls Chicago a place that ‘caters strictly to criminals who target the innocent’. Thornton is the 911 dispatcher praised for how he coordinated the response the night officers Ella French and Carlos Yanez were shot in the line of duty…
Ventura County Sheriff’s officials unveiled the first of two new mobile incident command posts Wednesday.
The rolling command center will be used as a communication hub during wildfires and other disasters, at major crime scenes and for search-and-rescue operations, among other duties.
The gleaming black trailer, which stretches 45 feet, is equipped with a conference room for up to 34 people, a dispatch room with three stations and 17 radios optimized for multiple agencies ranging from the California Highway Patrol to Naval Base Ventura County… READ MORE
The new system will allow for improved communication within and between the various town departments. It will also improve emergency communication between Wilton and neighboring towns.
Speaking during a news conference Wednesday, Wilton Police Captain Thomas Conlan thanked 143rd District Representative Stephanie Thomas for making town officials aware of this funding opportunity…
WESTFIELD — Regionalization of public safety dispatch in Westfield and Southwick is on schedule to take effect this winter, according to Westfield’s dispatch administrator.
Administrator Nina Barszcz said to Westfield’s Public Safety Communications Commission Wednesday evening that the radio infrastructure project necessary for combining the two communities’ 911 centers has gone out to bid, but only one vendor has responded with a quote so far…
Dispatchers at the Fairbanks Emergency Communications Center are the first line of response when people call 9-1-1.
But two years of overtime and staff shortages are eroding stress, according to dispatch manager Kristi Merideth, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“If you’ve ever had to call 9-1-1, they deal with that day in and day out on everyone else’s emergencies and then they have their own emergencies,” Merideth said. “Mental health is deteriorating very quickly…
TOMPKINS COUNTY, N.Y.—Tompkins County Information Technology Services is working to update its database systems that deal with addresses throughout the entire county. At a recent Tompkins County Council of Governments (TCCOG) meeting, Gregg Potter, director of ITS, gave a presentation with general updates on the projects.
The task of streamlining how addresses are handled throughout the county split off into two different projects: one focused on updating the existing database to add additional fields like unit numbers for apartment complexes as well as adding address points for all addresses rather than relying on the road centerline location previously provided…
