by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 13, 2022 | Comm Center News
Regionalism has reached new heights for employees of Chagrin Valley Dispatch.
Last week, a group of seven dispatchers departed for the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix, both of which have been ravaged by the pandemic and have effectively lost their ability to dispatch their emergency services.
“They are in a state of emergency,” CVD Director and Founder Nick DiCicco, a resident of Solon, explained.
As a result, the state of Ohio reached out to the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials, or APCO, describing the need for assistance, “and we answered the call,” Mr. DiCicco said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 13, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
In last week’s Advocate, I wrote about how far we have come in meeting our goal of interoperability and outlined some of the major items we still need to address. This week we will take a deeper dive into where we are today and what remains to be done.
First, let’s look at where we are today and what needs to be done this year. Yes, these things can be completed by the end of the year if public safety, FirstNet (Built with AT&T), the FirstNet Authority, and the vendor community can come to a consensus. As I have said before, this is not rocket science. A large number of agencies already use one of the FirstNet-approved Push-To-Talk (PTT) applications over the FirstNet network, over their LMR (Land Mobile Radio) systems, and to and from other agencies. If the vendor community won’t step up and take part in providing nationwide PTT interoperability, today’s FirstNet-approved PTT vendors that interoperate with each other will be able to go it alone and deliver the solution.
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 13, 2022 | Comm Center News
TAUNTON — The city may outsource 911 dispatch to a regional center in Foxboro, but it would be over the objections of Taunton’s rank-and-file cops.
City Councilors voted 6-3 on Tuesday to allow Mayor Shaunna O’Connell to keep exploring the idea. High-profile failures of the city’s dispatch system, such as during the 2016 stabbing rampage at the Silver City Galleria and elsewhere, led to changes to the city’s dispatch system based on the conclusions of a city-sponsored report by the Ryan Strategies Group….
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 13, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
The Enforcement Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications has entered into Consent Decrees with four major telecom carriers in connection with a system outage that prevented them from delivering 911 emergency calls.
The companies, CenturyLink, Intrado Safety Communications, Cellco Partnership (d/b/a Verizon Wireless), and AT&T Mobility, have agreed to pay a total of nearly $6.3 million in financial penalties for their roles in four separate 911 outages in September 2020. The outages ranged in length from one to three hours and affected users in multiple states across the U.S…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 13, 2022 | Comm Center News
RICHMOND, Virginia – No longer relying on copper wires to transmit calls, the Richmond Department of Emergency Communications switched to an Internet Protocol-based 9-1-1 system in late 2021.
The department began preparing for the switch to the digitally adapted system in 2018, and it was deployed in October 2021.
“We are consistently on the forefront of technological innovations,” said Stephen Willoughby, director of the Richmond Department of Emergency Communications…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 13, 2022 | Comm Center News
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Three California Public Safety departments are the first in the nation to offer wellness and resilience training to all professional staff. The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, UC Davis Police Department, and the Los Angeles Police Department Communications Division have all chosen Navigating Adversity from Pathfinder Resilience to provide comprehensive health and wellness training on a department-wide basis.
Every participant learns to assess their own needs and gain the understanding and tools to create and sustain a healthy and fulfilling life…
