by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
Roanoke County employees will have a little more cash in their pocket this month with one-time bonuses.
The board of supervisors recently passed an ordinance after the state approved $3,000 hazard pay bonuses for sheriff’s deputies using American Rescue Plan funds back in August.
County Administrator Dan O’Donnell said that in addition to the sheriff’s deputies, all other full time public safety employees in the county will receive $3,000 as well, which includes the county’s police department, fire and rescue squads and employees in the emergency communications center…
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
From Spotsylvania Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management:
Last week, through a joint effort of the Spotsylvania Information Services Department, Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office and Emergency Communications Center, and Spotsylvania Fire, Rescue, & Emergency Management, our public safety system made a huge leap forward in improving the service delivery to our community. We have implemented the use of a new state of the art computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system that has greater functionality to allow us all to serve you better, but also provides incident location, routing, and call notes in the hands of our personnel as they respond to your calls for help.
The new system uses automatic vehicle location (AVL) technology to make sure the closest, most appropriate units are dispatched to calls for help, based off their GPS locations…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
Kenton County Dispatch Supervisor, Melissa Eddy, has been given the Line Supervisor of the Year Award by the Kentucky Emergency Numbers Association in partnership with the Kentucky chapter of the Association for Public Safety Officials.
The Line Supervisor of the Year award aims to highlight exceptional supervisors that demonstrate professionalism, skill, and steadiness when faced with intensely stressful situations.
Eddy, a twenty-three year veteran with the Kenton County Emergency Communications Center (KCECC), has served as a Dispatch Supervisor for sixteen years…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
MATTOON — Interim Champaign Police Chief Matt Henson, who is a past officer in Arcola and Charleston, has been appointed as the new director of the emergency communications system for Coles and Moultrie counties.
The system’s Emergency Telephone System Board voted 6-1 to appoint Henson, an Arcola native, during its regular meeting in the Coles County Emergency Communications Center. Henson will fill the director position previously held by James Calvert, who stepped down from this post in mid-September…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
MANCHESTER — Discussions on whether Manchester will join North Shore Regional 911 Center in Middleton will continue into next year.
In the meantime, the North Shore Regional 911 Center in Middleton will conduct a feasibility study of the potential partnership.
“It’ll be a deep dive of our current services and additional equipment they may need,” said Town Administrator Greg Federspiel. “Connectivity is a big piece of this. (They’ll also study) our volume of calls and whether they’ll need more staffing on their end.”
Selectmen voted to request the study at their meeting on Oct. 18. The study is paid for through state taxes, at no cost to the town…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
Written by Benjamin Freed
Nov 4, 2021 | STATESCOOP
A majority of police officers and other emergency responders feel their communications technologies are capable of supporting their work, but many still say there’s a need for greater interoperability between devices, agencies and networks, according to a survey published Thursday by Verizon.
The survey, which questioned more than 3,000 cops, firefighters and emergency medical personnel, found that 70% are comfortable with existing technologies, including smartphones, mobile radios, laptops and push-to-talk devices. But 80% said that interoperability —
