NEW SCOTLAND — A year ago, citing coronavirus concerns and major savings to taxpayers, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple requested and received permission to move the county’s Emergency 9-1-1 Communications Center from its planned location at the Shaker Place Nursing Home in Colonie to the sheriff’s public-safety building in Clarksville.
Barring the county legislature voting down the project, “we anticipate putting a shovel in the ground in about 25 [to] 30 days,” Apple said on Aug. 24… READ MORE
HOWLAND — When there is an emergency, usually 911 is called, but what happens when 911 needs to call 911?
Thanks to the heroic effort of Trumbull County dispatcher Katelyn Bower, a choking Shana Murphy didn’t need to find out that answer Thursday night.
“I knew I was in trouble,” Murphy recalled.
About 5:30 p.m. Thursday, right after finishing a dispatch call for a pursuit in Liberty, Murphy was eating a steak when she started choking. She said it felt as if the piece of meat went down wrong and knew immediately something was wrong.
“I sat back in my chair and kept trying to swallow harder to get it to go down and it wouldn’t. I jumped up because I realized I was in trouble,” Murphy said…
WINNEBAGO COUNTY, Wis. (WFRV) – After 43 years of service, a local Winnebago County 911 Dispatcher picked up the phone and asked ‘9-1-1, what’s your emergency?” for the very last time.
For the last four decades Communications Center 911 Dispatcher, Dennis Kallin has been on the other end of the line aiding Wisconsinites during the times they needed it most. But now, Dennis is hanging up the phone and saying goodbye to the job he loved and hello to a happy retirement…
MORGAN HILL, Calif. – Authorities have located and disabled an electronic signal-jamming device in Morgan Hill.
The Santa Clara County Emergency Communications Department on Thursday reported that the signal was “disrupting, impeding, and interfering with public safety transmissions.”
Officials had noticed interference on a critical communication tower for the past six months, said Morgan Hill police Capt .Mario Ramirez…
The Pettis County Commission announced that as of Wednesday, Pettis County Joint Communications (PCJC) is now the primary operational emergency Public Safety Answering Point for Pettis County, consolidating the efforts between the Sedalia Police Department and Pettis County Sheriff’s Office communications units.
A news release states that while the primary function of PCJC is to process emergency or 911 calls for service, it also processes and handles non-emergency requests for police, fire, and medical service under nationally accepted protocols.
If you are experiencing an emergency, dial 911. The non-emergency number for PCJC is 660-826-8100…
Yes, it’s true. Police scanners no longer pick up transmissions from some local police departments.
Lewiston and Auburn police departments have gone to a new encrypted radio system that cannot be picked up by the regular police scanners owned by many civilians.
Paul LeClair, director of the Lewiston-Auburn 911 Communications Center, explained it this way:
“The 800MHz radio system — Auburn and Lewiston — police frequencies are 100-percent encrypted,” LeClair said Thursday, as the system unrolled. “The translation is that LA911 will ensure the police frequencies remain secure and encrypted by managing the new radio system technology. LA911 will not grant access to the police department frequencies to non-public safety agencies…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
