The Louisville Metro Police Department responded to questions and concerns Tuesday about its decision to move to an encrypted communication system that would delay police radio communications broadcast on police scanners.”We don’t want to impede on people having access to information,” LMPD Assistant Chief Paul Humphrey said. “What we want to do is make sure that when people do arrive at our scene, that we can protect them.”The radio transmissions will now be available on an app called Broadcastify and will be delayed by 15 minutes.”This delay is designed to make sure that we can secure a scene, secure people and victims and potential suspects, and have enough time to get resources there to contain things as opposed to preventing access to information,” Humphrey said…
WASHINGTON COUNTY, MN — A Washington County 911 telecommunicator who answered as a Wisconsin mother was giving birth in her car in Woodbury last week is being lauded by the county’s sheriff.
Vicki Herrmann picked up the phone when Baily Bieniek-Phelps and her husband, Tim, called 911 around 11 p.m. March 20 from the Interstate 94 off-ramp for Radio Drive and Inwood Avenue.
“Even though the baby was already ‘out,’ Vicki was ready to help,” the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post, crediting Herrmann for calmly walking Tim through “how to tie off the umbilical cord using a shoelace… READ MORE
CANTON – Dial 911 on your cellphone in Canton earlier this month and you’d talk to a second dispatcher before police or firefighters could head your way.
Cellphone-placed emergency calls in the city were answered by Stark County dispatchers and then transferred to city dispatchers. The process often meant the caller had to repeat the information and calls could get dropped during the transfer.
And with an estimated 80% of emergency calls coming in from cellphones, dispatchers were transferring many calls.
Now, the vast majority of 911 cellphone calls in the city go directly into the Canton’s emergency communications center or CanCom… READ MORE
NORTH GEORGETOWN – Several fire departments recently upgraded their communication systems after receiving a roughly $900,000 regional grant through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
North Georgetown, Sebring, Beloit, Damascus and Homeworth fire departments will be installing the Ohio Multi-Agency Radio Communication System (MARCS), a radio and data network that provides “statewide, secure, reliable public service wireless communication for public safety and first responders,” according to the Ohio Department of Administrative Services…
he Owensboro-Daviess County 911 Oversight Board has approved a plan that will cut out significant time between when an alarm goes off and the time a first responder is dispatched, said Paul Nave, director of the dispatch center.
He said the new ASAP to PSAP program should be operational by mid-April.
The initials stand for “Automated Secure Alarm Protocol” and “Public Safety Answering Point.”
Nave said that if an alarm — burglar, fire or any other type — is attached to the system, “when the alarm goes off, it comes into the 911 center, and we immediately dispatch police, fire or ambulance, depending on the type of alarm. There are no delays… READ MORE
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau today is continuing to take actions against telecom vendors that the agency perceives to be a threat to national security. The latest companies whose equipment or services have been deemed to be a security risk are AO Kaspersky Lab, China Telecom (Americas) Corp and China Mobile International USA Inc.
The regulator had earlier deemed Huawei and ZTE equipment as a threat and is requiring providers that deployed equipment from those companies (mostly Huawei) to replace it…
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