The City of Maricopa Police Association (COMPA) stands with the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 78 in support of opposing the closure of the City of Maricopa’s Emergency Communications Center (ECC). We believe closing the EEC will be catastrophic.
The City of Maricopa Police Association is a local associate organization of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Arizona (CLEAA) – a statewide police organization made up of law enforcement associations from across the state of Arizona. COMPA has represented sworn police officers and other members in law enforcement since 2007… READ MORE
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. — A former Cambria County 911 dispatcher is suing the county, alleging racial and sexual harassment.
The civil suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania by Christy L. Janciga, who is white and the mother of a biracial child.
She was employed in the Cambria County Department of Emergency Services from Dec. 2, 2019, until April 1, 2020, when she was discharged.
Janciga claims in her complaint that she was terminated in retaliation after she complained to a supervisor about alleged racial and sexual harassment that created a hostile work environment… READ MORE
Photos of the new radio towers going up in Taylorsville on May 13 (left) and 14 (right) for the P-25 mission critical public safety communication system were provided by Commissioner Scotty Tillery.
Update: Headline edited for poor grammar. – KtE
The new radio system for Polk County 911 dispatchers to use to communicate clearly with first responders out in the field is in the midst of going up, and the upgrade to the new P-25 mission critical public safety communications system that is set to go online this year.
On Thursday, May 13 and Friday, May 14, sections of the radio tower were stacked and put up on property in Taylorsville being used by the county to relay the system to all points of Polk, and made connections further on in Bartow and Cobb to the central hub of the digital system being hosted by Cobb County…
YOUNGSTOWN — A captain at the Youngstown Police Department, newly appointed to oversee its 911 center, said Lansdowne Boulevard resident Earl Minotti has reason to be upset that the response time to put out the fire that badly damaged his home early Thursday was delayed by a minute or more.
“The homeowner is legitimately upset, and they have a right to be, quite frankly. I want to get on this and figure out why this happened and how we can fix it,” Capt. Kevin Mercer said Friday…
I can verify if needed, but I was a 911 dispatcher for my local sheriff’s department for about a year and a half. My instructor made a pretty chilling point that as a call taker, you’re going to be the last person on earth to talk to some of these people, I’ve heard suicides over the phone and even worse heard people who found their loved ones after a suicide.
For me personally it was a very rewarding job and I loved the teamwork aspect of it. When there’s a major call or a pursuit happening, it’s a very crazy feeling to be in the room and listen to the communication between the call taker, the dispatcher for that frequency and the supervisor (because the supervisor is typically talking to either the patrol sergeant or the night Lieutenant)…
Staff at the Holbrook Regional Emergency Communications Center moved into their new facility in January.
This story originally appeared in the May 13 edition of the Citizen.
A few years ago, Canton Fire Chief Charles Doody’s niece dialed 911 because of an emergency with her then two-week-old daughter.
“She was choking overnight,” Doody said of the baby girl. “The dispatcher was able to provide CPR instruction over the phone to my niece’s husband, who kept her alive until we were able to arrive.” It turned out that the baby had been throwing up and had a blocked airway, which the EMTs cleared after arriving at the home…
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