by ECC Editor | Apr 26, 2022 | Comm Center News
City Administrator Phillip Patterson announced during Tuesday’s city board meeting that the Arkansas 911 Board has chosen to cut funding to one of Benton County’s Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP).
The 911 Board voted to only fund three PSAPs, also known as 911 call centers, in Benton County, Patterson said in his administrator’s report. The county presently has four PSAPs each located in Bentonville, Rogers, rural Benton County and Siloam Springs.
In 2019, the state legislature adopted Act 660, which replaced the Arkansas Telephone Emergency Services Board with the Arkansas 911 Board. Another requirement of Act 660 is to develop a plan to provide funding for a limited number of PSAPs across the state… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
How many full-time dispatchers can be funded and how to provide a raise for them were primary topics of discussion Wednesday at a meeting of the Greeneville-Greene County 911 board of directors.
911 Director Jerry Bird submitted two tentative budgets, one providing for the 18 full-time dispatchers currently employed and another that would pay for 20 full-time dispatchers.
Bird has said that 21 full-time dispatchers, supplemented by part-time employees, would be a workable number accounting for attrition and factors like unplanned medical leave and vacation time… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
NORRISTOWN — Members of the Norristown Municipal Council authorized a nearly $70,000 contract earlier this week to revamp its public safety communications system as renovations continue on Municipal Hall.
The roughly $69,786 agreement with Intenna Systems, Inc, of Medford, New Jersey, would enhance communications for the municipality’s police officers, firefighters and first responders, according to Norristown Fire Chief Tom O’Donnell…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Raleigh public safety personnel continue to voice their concerns about safety in the City of Oaks as staff vacancies and low wages plague multiple departments.
The ABC11 I-Team spoke exclusively to a current 911 operator who has worked at the Wake-Raleigh Emergency Communications Center for years.
“We’re bleeding staff,” the employee said. “It’s going to get worse before it gets better. And I’m concerned about the citizens of Wake County and about the first responders…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
LEBANON, Ohio — Warren County’s emergency dispatch center has some new technology to help weed out accidental 911 calls.
The county said dozens of accidental calls from Kings Island became a problem as they have taken up time needed to handle real emergencies.
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
Each year, the second full week of April is dedicated to the men and women who serve as public safety telecommunicators during National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW). During the week of April 10-16, we honor the oft-forgotten heroes of public safety, our dispatchers, who serve our communities, citizens and public safety personnel 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Every emergency that a police officer or firefighter responds to begins with or is handled by one of our public safety dispatchers. They are truly on the front lines and are usually the first person a citizen deals with during a crisis…
