CRESTVIEW — The largest piece of the funding mix to pay for a massive Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office emergency communications equipment project fell into place Tuesday.
That’s when the County Commission unanimously agreed to borrow $19.7 million from the Santa Rosa Beach branch of Trustmark National Bank to cover the bulk of the $26.5 million project. It could be completed by early to mid-2024….
City directors will hear an update concerning the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) consolidation on Tuesday during the city board meeting.
In 2019, the state legislature adopted Act 660, which replaced the Arkansas Telephone Emergency Services Board with the Arkansas 911 Board, according to a staff report prepared by City Administrator Phillip Patterson on Nov. 30.
The act requires the board develop a plan by January of 2022 to provide funding for a limited number of PSAPs, which are generally referred to as state 911 call centers, the report states… READ MORE
“When you have all of those entities working together it results in a safer and more secure campus,” Holden said.
Several other universities in the region operate under the Department of Public Safety model, including University of Dayton, University of Cincinnati and Bowling Green State University.
The police department employs 12 police officers, several part-time detectives, six dispatchers and a team of officer for community policing and special events. A lieutenant, records technician, customer care center supervisor and two parking attendants are also employed…
Cuyahoga Falls, Fairlawn, Tallmadge and Summit County are moving ahead with plans to create a regional dispatch service, even as another potential key player mulls whether to join the operation.
The city of Stow’s participation — or lack thereof — will not change the other communities’ financial contributions to the project or its timeline.
The five entities have discussed consolidating their dispatch services for at least five years, and in early November finalized negotiations…
The Columbus City Council is expected to vote Monday on spending $4 million for new police body cameras, in-car cameras, and interview cameras to upgrade the division’s technology.
The city is not selecting a new vendor yet, but it is setting aside money for the system upgrade. The city will go through a procurement process before selecting a vendor.
In January, Mayor Andrew J. Ginther announced that that city would invest at least $4.5 million in upgrading and replacing the cameras that officers now wear…
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted today announced details of a new proposal that would invest hundreds of millions of dollars into initiatives to protect Ohio’s citizens from violence and support first responder resilience and recovery.
The proposal would award $250 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to state and local first-responder agencies to counter increases in violent crime and to mitigate impacts to staffing levels and first-responder wellness caused by the COVID-19 pandemic…
