A couple of pranksters broke into our police station and stole all of the toilets in our bathrooms. A spokesperson for the City told reporters, “The police have nothing to go on.” April 1 is April Fool’s Day, and that was my poor attempt at an April Fool’s joke. Please forgive me.
From April 10 through April 16, we will celebrate National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. We are blessed to have one of the finest dispatch centers in the country. As many of you know, we are expanding our services to dispatch for the City of Coconut Creek beginning in October of this year…
WATERTOWN — Since 2012, a group of Jefferson County legislators and department officials have been working to upgrade the county’s public safety radio system.
Joseph D. Plummer, director of the county Office of Fire and Emergency Management, said the new radio system is a state-of-the-art, high-tech system that completely outpaces the system the county’s first responders have had to rely on since the 1970s…
Newport News was one of the first cities in Virginia to start sending mental health professionals to 911 calls for mental health crises.
So far, the program known as Community Assistance Response, or CARE, is showing signs of success. But it needs more staff to be able to respond to calls in the evening, so the city is hoping to add one more two-person team to the program… READ MORE
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Rave Mobile Safety has created a new safety app called Smart 911.
The app allows users to create a safety profile giving emergency services instant access to the user’s personal information. The 911 dispatchers then use this information to assist in emergency situations.
Jason French, State Director for Smart 911, tells us out of 66 million Smart 911 users nationwide, 200,000 of those users are in Arkansas.
Smart 911 was created in 2009 but Arkansas was also the first state to implement Smart 911 in all emergency call centers across the state in 2012…
EDINA, MN — The Edina Police Department put out a message late Wednesday night warning that some 911 calls may not get through.
The department said the Edina 911 Communications Center was “experiencing difficulties” with calls from T-Mobile/Sprint users and recommended they call the 10-digit, 24-hour dispatch line — 952-826-1600 — if they had an emergency.
The Edina 911 Communications Center was just one of many dispatch centers that experienced problems Wednesday into Thursday. Police departments and 911 centers throughout the Twin Cities and across the U.S. posted similar messages to the Edina 911 center’s…
CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – The consolidation of Clarksville’s and Montgomery County’s E-911 dispatch centers, which has been in the works since at least 2018, has fallen through, according to Clarksville’s chief of police.
The decision to keep the departments separate was made by Police Chief David Crockarell in mid-March, and he announced it at the most recent E-911 District Board meeting on March 17.
The attempt to consolidate city dispatchers – who work under CPD to dispatch for police and Clarksville Fire Rescue – with the E-911 Center was suggested several years ago, long before Crockarell was sworn in as chief of police in 2020, Scott Beaubien, CPD spokesman, told Clarksville Now…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
