The Lyon County Emergency Communications Center is preparing to celebrate National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week and director Roxanne Van Gundy is seeking some help from the community with “Adopt a Dispatcher.”
Adopt a Dispatcher, she said, is a way to help recognize local emergency dispatchers with notes, cards or other small tokens of appreciation…
HANCOCK COUNTY — Indiana requires people to undergo minimum training before they can work in a variety of professions. Law enforcement officers, auctioneers and nail technicians are just a few.
The state did not, however, mandate such preparation for those picking up the phone on the other end of a 911 call. That is, until a law recently went into effect authored by a state senator representing Hancock County with the help of the county’s 911 director…
MADISON, Wis – The Wisconsin NextGen9-1-1 GIS Implementation Plan is now available on the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs, Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) website.
The newly released Plan was developed as part of a larger NextGen9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) project with OEC and consulting firm, Geo-Comm, Inc. and outlines the tasks necessary at the state and local levels for preparing local Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data for call routing on an NG9-1-1 system… READ MORE
A committee of the Macomb County Board of Commissioners recently gave preliminary approval to a 42-cent per-month surcharge on cell phones for 911 operations, but a scheduled full-board vote on the matter last Thursday was delayed.
The Records and Public Safety Committee on Monday, March 14, approved the assessment in a 9-4 vote. The fee, which amounts to $5 per year, on each cell phone in Macomb County is needed to raise an estimated $3.3 million a year primarily to keep up with advancing technology in the emergency 911 system, officials said…
Mayor Justin Elicker continued filling out City Hall’s top ranks, tapping two new department heads to lead the city’s 911 call center and its programming for elderly residents.
Elicker announced those latest appointments during a Monday afternoon press conference on the ground floor of City Hall.
The second-term mayor has picked Tomi Veale to serve as the city’s next acting director of the Department of Elderly Services. She will replace Migdalia Castro, whose appointment Elicker declined to renew earlier this year…
Summit County dispatch received 16 calls in a short period from the same individual in Canyons Village on Tuesday, March 15.
The caller, a 22-year-old Florida man, made nine calls to 911 and seven others to the non-emergency number but never reported an emergency. During the calls, the man was uncooperative with dispatchers and refused to provide his name or information about where he was staying, according to a report from the Summit County Sheriff’s Office…
