by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
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.
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
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.
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
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 ……
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 29, 2021 | Comm Center News
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
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 28, 2021 | Comm Center News
Grey County is renewing its contract with Owen Sound Police Services, which is its 911 public safety answering point, dispatching emergency responders.
The new contract includes a small share of the costs for equipping the OSPS service for coming changes to emergency call services. READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 28, 2021 | Comm Center News
NEWTON COUNTY, Mo. (KY3) – Newton County Central Dispatch has announced that dispatchers are now accepting Text-to-911 cases.
Text-to-911 is a service that can be used in an emergency when making a call is not possible. It is meant to help if a caller is deaf or speech-impaired, in addition to situations when speaking out loud would put the caller in danger. …….READ MORE
