WILLIAMSPORT, Md. (WDVM) — A new system has been installed at the Washington County Emergency Services Center.
The new system is called Next Generation 911. It helps more accurately depict where a caller is calling from when they need help. READ MORE
RALEIGH — The N.C. 911 Board has approved $8.45 million in grants to 12 local public safety answering points and $6 million for three statewide projects. The grants will fund improvements to 911 PSAPs, radio-and-dispatch equipment upgrades and creation of new Public Safety Answering Points.
The Boone Police Department received $252,565.43 for a radio replacement project, and Watauga County received $154,130.86 to upgrade equipment.
In an effort to better recruit and retain workers in the field, the Carteret County Board of Commissioners recently approved a 12.5% across-the-board pay increase for employees in the emergency communications center.
According to information from Carteret County Emergency Services director Stephen Rea, the center is experiencing a staffing shortage, with eight positions in currently unfilled. He said the job is a stressful one, leading to high turnover and difficulty with recruitment, but officials hope a pay boost will help attract and keep workers.
MERIDEN — The city’s pension board earlier this month voted not to approve an early retirement application with normal benefits for emergency communications dispatcher Elizabethan Marotti.
Marotti, who serves as president of the union that represents dispatchers, was among the city employees whose pension applications the board reviewed.
The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Emergency Communications Center was awarded national accreditation on Nov. 19 by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies in the communications program.
The agency was first accredited in November 2011.
Following a multi-year self-assessment phase and a meticulous site-based assessment of community ……
Richard Franz has been named the Deputy Director of the City of Lawton’s Emergency Communications Department.
As deputy director, Franz will be responsible for coordinating, directing, evaluating and supervising the work of the emergency communications center’s employees engaged in public safety dispatching and call-taking, according to a press release. Franz also will manage facilities, radio, computer information systems and related technologies. READ MORE
