Two separate emergency expenditures have been approved for the Bartholomew County’s 911 Emergency Operations Center.
Emergency approval by the Bartholomew County commissioners was given just a few weeks after a potentially dangerous situation emerged, E-911 Center Director Todd Noblitt said.
“We found that, for some reason, we were having issues communicating effectively with all our public safety personnel in the field,” Noblitt said…
Georgia doesn’t require CPR pre-arrival directions. Our investigation discovered greater than half of Georgia’s 911 facilities select to not provide the life-saving system.
ATLANTA — The nation’s busiest airport is within the course of of coaching all of its 911 operators to supply CPR directions and different medical recommendation over the telephone, following an investigation by The Reveal on 11Alive.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport was not alone in deciding to not present medical pre-arrival directions to 911 callers. The Reveal has realized that greater than half of all main 911 facilities in Georgia select to not practice their dispatchers in CPR or Emergency Medical Dispatch…
The following is a compilation of ideas I presented in a Mission Critical Communications article (August 2019) and in previous Advocates, along with updated information and further thoughts.
My vision of the ultimate device for public-safety Next-Generation 9-1-1 (NG911), FirstNet, and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) includes a common Internet Protocol (IP) backend. Radios would be a smart combination of LMR and FirstNet that, for the most part, would be controlled by the networks. These radios would deliver information first responders need to do their jobs and they would be capable of off-network (simplex) one-to-one and one-to-many communications…
ST-GEORGES, Quebec, June 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Komutel inc. announces today, that it is ready to begin testing the new NENA EIDO (Emergency Incident Data Object) schema as part of its on-going participation in the Canadian NG-trials.
On June 13th, 2021 CRTC decision 2021-199 established March 1st 2022 as the date by which the NG9-1-1 network providers are required to be ready to provide NG9-1-1 Voice, wherever public safety answering points (PSAPs) have been established in a particular region… READ MORE
The Newport News Police Department has increased its technology to help reduce violent crime.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The Newport News Police Department is trying new ways to reduce, prevent, and solve crimes in its city.
“This time last year we had seven or eight homicides. Today, we have 15,” said Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew.
Chief Drew explained the department is focused on increasing the police department’s technology resources.
“There’s so much technology out there that can speed things up. We’re looking at bringing a fingerprint technician. We’re upgrading our AVIS system. We have a NIBIN system here that can collect shell casings and firearms that we test fire to tell if those casings have been recovered in any other particular firearm shooting,” said Drew…
(WQOW) – A button that you’d normally press to turn your cellphone on and off could accidentally be making 911 calls.
On many iPhones, if you quickly press the side button five times, it can automatically call 911 for you. Sometimes it’s because your child is playing with your phone, or maybe you think you’re clicking the volume button.
Altoona police say so far this year, their officers have investigated 44 hang-up 911 calls. In the first half of January 2020 alone, Eau Claire County Dispatch investigated 121 hang-up calls…
