by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 24, 2021 | Comm Center News, Jobs
GENERAL SUMMARY
Receives and broadcasts information through telephone, radio, and several computer systems to ensure safety of officers as well as the public. Entering, modifying, second-party checking, validating, and canceling warrants. He/she is a communications link to the residents, the police department, fire department and other outsource services.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Employees may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 24, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
This week’s Advocate is made up of a series of shorter pieces covering items I think the public-safety community should to be aware of, starting with how upcoming wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, floods in the east, and severe drought in the west will potentially increase the number of incidents and affect first-responders’ ability to handle them efficiently.
Then we will look at the new National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standard for portable radios and speaker/microphones for withstanding the extreme conditions often faced by firefighters. Having bet on NFPA-certification, L3Harris appears to be the first vendor to build a fully-functional portable with multiband Land Mobile Radio (LMR) and FirstNet capabilities that should comply with the NFPA standard…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 24, 2021 | Comm Center News
Trinidad Police Department (TPD) announced last week that it plans to encrypt its radio communications between officers and dispatchers starting this week — creating concern for adequate oversight of the department.
“The decision to move forward with encryption was based primarily on public safety concerns,” TPD said in a release.
Representatives of TPD said that there were not any specific incidents leading up to this decision that prompted the change — but it is in line with many municipalities nationwide including Denver, Colorado, Baltimore, Maryland. and Sioux City, Iowa, who have encrypted both S.W.A.T. and routine communications, according to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 24, 2021 | Comm Center News
The Lake County Board of Commissioners honored two Lake County 911 Central Dispatchers for the County’s 911 Dispatcher of the Year award.
The 2019 award went to Kimberly Hodges, while the 2020 award went to Tera Phillipp.
The Commissioners postponed giving Hodges her award because of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The 911 Dispatcher of the Year is chosen by their peers, and honors dispatchers that go above and beyond the call of duty…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 24, 2021 | Comm Center News
LINCOLN – Pressured by the Lincoln Police Union, public officials and concerned residents, Twin River Casino has updated its security system so that Lincoln police officers are equipped with radios that are compatible with the casino.
In March, Lincoln Det. Kyle Wingate, IBPO Local 435 president, wrote a letter to the Lincoln Town Council addressing public safety concerns, noting that the Police Department’s radio equipment was inoperable inside Twin River, forcing officers to rely on cell phones to communicate when called there to respond to an incident…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 24, 2021 | Comm Center News
Emergency calls will be received at the unified communications center, which brings dispatch for police, fire, ambulance, and public works under one roof, eliminating the need to transfer calls.
“Today we’re consolidating, centralizing, digitizing, doing things we should be doing in the 21st century,” said mayor Andre Sayegh…
