by AllThingsECC.com | May 7, 2021 | Comm Center News
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The county will expand its Emergency Services Regional Dispatch Center in Westfield, allowing more towns the option to use its services for fire, EMS, mutual aid and first responders.
At Thursday’s virtual Board of County Commissioners meeting, commissioners awarded a $3.28 million contract to H&S Construction and Mechanical Inc., of Elizabeth, for construction at the dispatch center.
A portion of the costs will be offset by a $150,000 in Local Efficiency Achievement Program Challenge Grant from the state Department of Community Affairs…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 7, 2021 | Comm Center News
With goals of providing better help for people experiencing mental health crises in Baltimore and freeing up more time for police officers to tackle crime and build connections in the community, the city and a nonprofit organization will soon send some 911 calls to social workers and clinicians.
The citywide 911 Diversion Pilot, set to start in June, aims to connect callers with the most appropriate resources and responses for their needs. It will start small — focusing specifically on people with suicidal ideation and without weapons or plans to act on those thoughts — before scaling up…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 7, 2021 | Comm Center News
Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman cut the ribbon on Friday, officially opening a new 911 dispatch facility that sports his name.
The “Sheriff Mitchel Newman Law Enforcement Communication Center” has been built on the north side of the Sheriff’s Department, and in addition to a much larger space for dispatchers to work in, the $800,000.00 building also features a large meeting room as well as a kitchen.
Newman, along with Chief Deputy Scotty Duncan pointed out that although the building has Newman’s name on it, the real driving force behind the project was former Chief Deputy Glenn Blank, who died in November of 2019 due to complications following a double lung transplant…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 7, 2021 | Comm Center News
CINCINNATI (FOX19) – The 911 dispatchers who answer more than a thousand emergency calls daily across Hamilton County and then quickly relay that critical information to police and fire crews so they can respond are working “crazy amounts” of mandatory overtime to keep up with critically low staffing levels, their boss says.
The rise in overtime so far this year is not impacting call times or service, according to Andrew Knapp, director of the county’s communications center…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 7, 2021 | Comm Center News
Public-safety representatives are expressing optimism that 4.9 GHz rules passed late last year could be halted or reversed, as FCC commissioners are considering an amendment that many sources believe is stay order suspending the 4.9 GHz rules that would let states lease the longtime public-safety airwave to commercial entities.
Last week, the FCC posted that an amendment to its 4.9 GHz order—docket 07-100—is being circulated among commissioners in preparation for a potential vote on the matter. Last fall, the FCC voted 3-2 along party lines—Republicans held the majority at the time—to let states lease 4.9 GHz spectrum to commercial entities, although the airwaves had been designated for public-safety use for almost two decades…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 7, 2021 | Comm Center News
Crestwood and Sunset Hills may be sister cities, but the cities’ aldermen had opposite reactions to a proposal for Sunset Hills to provide 911 dispatching for Crestwood.
The Crestwood Board of Aldermen gave the police dispatching agreement unanimous preliminary approval with no comment in the consent agenda April 27, while the Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen had concerns with the proposal that stopped it on final passage…
