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…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 24, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
As we planned for the FirstNet network, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) worked together with the public safety community to understand their critical communications needs. To make use of mobile broadband for daily operations and emergencies, first responders told us they needed the network to be available when and where they needed it most.
The FirstNet Authority incorporated this important feedback on coverage into our Request for Proposals for the network. We ensured that terrestrial cell sites would be deployed where public safety needed them most according to each State’s plan. We also enabled innovative solutions for coverage by incorporating public safety deployables or portable cell sites into the FirstNet offering. READ FULL ARTICLE
