SNOW HILL – Despite concerns about the level of funding the town is providing to its fire company, county officials agreed this week not to cut the Town of Berlin’s unrestricted grant.
The Worcester County Commissioners voted unanimously this week to reverse last week’s decision to reduce Berlin’s annual grant for fiscal year 2022 by $115,000. They made it clear, however, that maintaining fire company funding would be a key issue moving forward.
“If we give them the $115,000, we have to put them on notice that this is not going to happen anymore. Period,” Commission President Joe Mitrecic said…
Some officials are still 10-1 — unable to copy — the need to hurry along a communications upgrade that 911 officials have been pressing in recent months.
Discussions began publicly on a $7.2 million communications project proposed when commissioners were outlined a plan to replace aging infrastructure in the county. The project will impact more than 60 agencies that use the Scotts Bluff County Communications Center,
County and 911 advisory board officials talked at length about the communications project, which will include the construction and installation of new communications towers in the county, installation of new consoles in the county’s 911 center and new radios by public safety agencies throughout the county, during separate meetings this week. County commissioners met on Monday…
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A feasibility study for multiple aspects of a Piscataquis County public safety radio system is nearing completion and the document soon to be presented to the Piscataquis County Commissioners will include information on moving the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s dispatch center.
The center would be moved out of the Piscataquis County Jail in Dover-Foxcroft to the building now housing the patrol and investigations division in downtown Guilford.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) – The Highway Patrol went live today with its Next-Generation 911 System.
The major upgrade allows the patrol’s communication centers to directly receive 911 calls being transferred from any of the state’s primary and secondary 911 centers.
That transfer includes the caller’s telephone number along with their actual location. Troopers say that will greatly improve their ability to locate people needing help on the state’s highways… READ MORE
Starting in June, if someone calls 911 with a mental health crisis, dispatchers can deploy clinicians instead of officers.
WASHINGTON — If someone in D.C. calls 911 with a mental health crisis, soon it might not be police showing up at their door.
In June, the district will start deploying community response teams, made up of behavioral health experts and peers with similar lived experiences, to certain calls for behavioral health incidents.
The pilot is a partnership between the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, the Office of the City Administrator, the Office of Unified Communications (OUC), and the Department of Behavioral Health (DBH)…
A new regional dispatch center took one step closer to reality on May 17.
During the virtual Select Board meeting in Concord, town leaders from Concord and Acton discussed a draft of an agreement on a new district, the Acton Concord Regional Communications Center, or the AC RECC.
The draft agreement establishes the governance model between Concord and Acton. It establishes an independent district to operate the regional emergency communications center.
“Some regional dispatch centers are created under an inter-municipal agreement with a host community,” Crane said…
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.
