The city of Ottawa recognized Stacey Fuentes and Chandler Koepke as Telecommunicators of the Year as part of its annual celebration of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
Commissioner James Less said the winner of the award was decided via a vote among all of the city’s 911 operators and the office was split between Fuentes and Koepke. It was then decided both were deserving of the award… READ MORE
ITHACA, N.Y. — A white SUV drove straight into the corner of Bangs’ Ambulance’s office and dispatch building on Tuesday.
“It shook the whole building,” said Meghan Bangs, Human Resource Manager and EMT for her family’s business.
As one would expect, the response time was in seconds flat from Bangs, which keeps an ambulance at the ready at the offices located within the 200 block on Green Street…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) – The Riley County Police Department’s Communications Center has started the process to become CALEA accredited.
The Riley County Police Department says it has officially started the process for the Public Safety Communications Accreditation Program through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies – CALEA.
“RCPD has held Law Enforcement Accreditation for a long time and we’ve seen the benefit of having those standards,” said RCPD Support Captain Brad Jager. “We want to ensure the same professional level of service to the community with our Dispatchers who are the initial First Responders for Riley County…
As costs continue to rise and people check every bill for savings, you might find yourself reviewing your cell phone statement for relief. Have you noticed the line item, “NJ 911 System / Emergency Response Fee”? This small fee is a tax collected by service providers and paid to the state with the intent of the monies being distributed to support 9-1-1 services and infrastructure. However, in New Jersey, only 11% is being used for these public safety purposes while the rest is being diverted into the state budget. For over a decade, Trenton politicians of both political parties have used these dollars for their own agendas. This must stop…
By mid-2024, the financial operations of Portland’s four public safety bureaus will live under one roof: the Community Safety Division. That’s if all goes according to a plan laid out by Mike Myers, Portland’s community safety transition director.
Myers began serving in his current role last April, about five years after the city hired him as fire chief in 2016. In that role, he drew on his prior experience as fire chief in Las Vegas, which has a city manager governance structure as opposed to the commission system in Portland, wherein commissioners supervise and protect a portfolio of bureaus. (Portland is the last remaining large city in the nation with such a structure…
DAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Davidson County leaders are considering changes to the dispatcher training academy to get new hires on the floor faster in the 911 center.Currently, the county has between four to five employees taking calls on each shift. County Manager Casey Smith told FOX8 that ideally, there would be eight.
“It is low. There’s no doubt it is low,” he said Tuesday. “We are taking the issue very seriously in terms of the staffing.”
The county is actively recruiting for five vacant positions. There are eight new hires in a twelve-week training academy that’s expected to be finished in a few weeks… READ MORE
