The city of Pickerington recently upgraded its emergency-response services to enable its emergency dispatch center to receive text messages.
Pickerington Police Chief Tod Cheney said the city launched its text-to-911 services Aug. 26.
The move will provide people within the city another option to alert 911 dispatchers.
“It’s definitely going to enhance the safety of the public,” Cheney said. “There are times when somebody may be unable to speak when they call 911, and it also will help domestic violence victims when they’re abuser is in the room or during home invasions when people can’t communicate verbally to dispatchers.”
Cheney said the text-to-911 feature also will better serve the hearing impaired…
Gloria is the mayor of San Diego and lives in Mission Hills. Fletcher is chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and lives in City Heights.
Not all emergencies are alike.
Police officers respond to crimes. Firefighters respond to fires. Paramedics respond to physical medical emergencies. But if you or a loved one were having a mental health emergency, dialing 911 would dispatch law enforcement, not trained mental health clinicians.
This is going to change in the city of San Diego and across San Diego County.
Starting this month, county-funded Mobile Crisis Response Teams composed of a mental health clinician, a case manager and a trained peer support specialist will be activated. Members of these teams are trained crisis interventionists. They arrive on-site, evaluate the condition of those in crisis, and link them to the best place to get the trauma-informed behavioral health and supportive services they need…
NORTH FALMOUTH, Mass., Sept. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Quell Foundation, which strives to reduce the number of suicides, overdoses, and the incarceration of people living with a mental health illness, today announces that FirstNet®, Built with AT&T will underwrite the Foundation’s first responder mental health preparedness and training program.
“The women and men of our nation’s first responder community are more likely to die by suicide than in the line-of-duty,” says Kevin M. Lynch, CEO, and President of The Quell Foundation. “These Americans who have dedicated their life to protecting, and saving ours, are taking their own lives at unprecedented rates. We are honored FirstNet is supporting the development of Quell’s First Responder Training and Preparedness Program, the Foundation’s training curriculum for first responders to recognize mental health warning signs amongst their own.”
FirstNet is also underwriting The Foundation’s upcoming documentary “Lift the Mask – First Responders Sound the Alarm,” produced by The Quell Foundation and MOD Worldwide. The film provides insight into the lives and the experiences of the first responder community, their families, and the lives they touch through their day-to-day activities…
Citing an inability to keep up with a surge in crime that’s overwhelming officers, St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell is asking the City Council to spend $3.1 million more on his department than what Mayor Melvin Carter proposed.
The unusual bucking of authority during a routine budget presentation on Wednesday sparked tensions between the police chief, the mayor and council members about the role of law enforcement in St. Paul, a debate that has intensified in cities across the country since the murder of George Floyd sparked calls to defund police agencies and invest in alternative public safety programs.
Carter has proposed allocating $120.8 million, about 17% of the city’s overall budget, to police in 2022. That amount is $1.2 million less than what the department received in 2021, but Carter’s plan shifts $5.1 million from the police to other city departments taking over management of St. Paul’s community ambassadors program and emergency communications center…
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (WCSC) – Goose Creek Police say their newly-renovated communications center will better serve the community and prepare first responders before they arrive on the scene of a crisis.
Goose Creek emergency dispatchers will begin working in the new center Thursday.
People who call 911 going forward can expect additional questions when they call in to report a medical emergency.
The $1.1 million upgrade to their emergency dispatch facility means new processing equipment and training for 911 calls…
Goose Creek emergency dispatchers are trained on a system that will help them prepare first responders for the calls they’re responding to and give critical instructions to callers who report medical emergencies.(Live 5)
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