by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 3, 2022 | Comm Center News
The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday to retroactively authorize $220,000 in hiring bonuses sanctioned by former Mayor Jenny Durkan on her way out of office, condemning Durkan’s actions and calling for reform.
Last month, council members became aware of a last-minute maneuver by Durkan to extend her order offering the bonuses beyond a sunset period set by council, after 5 police officers and 14 9-1-1 dispatchers had been offered the incentives after Jan. 1, when they believed the program had ended…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 3, 2022 | Comm Center News
Discussions regarding updates to the 911 Communications System that serves Paducah and McCracken County residents continued on Monday.
Members of the 911 Communication Oversight Committee asked representatives of Federal Engineering, Inc., a firm that specializes public safety communications consulting, questions about the best way to move forward with system improvements.
The main concern for the 911 system is its radio system, which includes handheld radios, radio infrastructure at the 911 Center and radio towers. The radio system reached its end-of-life in 2018, according to a previous Sun report…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 3, 2022 | Comm Center News
Sheriff Robert Norris said wages haven’t kept up with booming housing costs in Kootenai County.
KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho — Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris held a press conference on Wednesday to talk about crime, including the shooting death of a Hauser man on Monday night and other larger-scale trends.
But Norris also took time to talk about what he said were staffing issues in the sheriff’s office spanning multiple areas, including the patrol division, the county’s emergency communications center and county jail staff.
According to Norris, Kootenai County’s population has grown by almost 40,000 people from 2009 until now…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 3, 2022 | Comm Center News
MERIDEN — City Hall has seen some shuffling of department heads, with a new emergency communications director on board and the city’s current director of public works and engineering set to vacate his position this month.
David Boyce was named Emergency Communications Center director last month after serving as assistant director of emergency communications for the previous 10 months.
According to Boyce’s LinkedIn profile, he had been employed as an emergency communications dispatcher for the city of Middletown for 21 years, until his hiring in Meriden last spring. Boyce’s profile stated while in Middletown he was promoted to deputy chief communications within four years “by consistently evaluating communications support working independently and simultaneously with executives to instruct new procedures to increase operation functions”…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 3, 2022 | Comm Center News
FARMINGTON — A Franklin County public safety group that uses a computer-aided dispatch and record-keeping program for emergency services asked commissioners Tuesday to reserve $500,000 in a federal grant for a new system.
The Information Management Corp., known better as IMC, is not going away but is not expected to receive any more upgrades in the future, said Amanda Simoneau, deputy emergency management director.
The group has been working on a communications solution. They have looked at a couple of systems, Jay Police Chief Richard Caton IV said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 3, 2022 | Comm Center News
In an emergency, calling 9-1-1 and receiving immediate help can literally mean the difference between life and death. And in Fairfax County, these calls are automatically routed to the highly trained people at the Department of Public Safety Communications (DPSC).
Housed in the McConnell Public Safety and Transportation Operations Center on West Ox Road in Fairfax, it’s the largest 9-1-1 center in Virginia and in the top 10 in the U.S. The county adopted 9-1-1 in 1981; and in 2005, it became its own agency, separate from the police.
Dispatchers receive emergency calls and dispatch police, fire/EMS, sheriff and animal protection units. And two of these dispatchers – Ashley Honabach and Gabi Graves, both also hostage and crisis negotiators – addressed a recent, virtual meeting of the Sully District Police Station’s Citizens Advisory Committee…
