by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 2, 2021 | Comm Center News
PSCE Signs MoI Focused on Public Safety Use of Satellite with ESA
Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE) and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a memorandum of intent (MoI) to support the utilization of satellite applications for public safety.
Under the new MoI, ESA and PSCE will work together establishing interoperable public-safety communications systems. The MoI will support the emergence of space-based mobile broadband applications in the public-safety domain. These include applications within disaster preparedness, response and resilience, situational awareness, assessments of damages, navigation-based services for tracking and coordinating rescue forces on site and for emergency vehicles…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 2, 2021 | Comm Center News
HILLSDALE, N.J.—A proposal to outsource emergency dispatch services to Bergen County’s Public Safety Operations Center (PSOC) could save the borough more than $1 million over five years, according to the borough’s business administrator.
Council members have yet to vote on whether to outsource dispatch operations to the center—Hillsdale apparently would be the first municipality in the Pascack Valley to do so—but they discussed it at the March 9 council meeting…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 2, 2021 | Comm Center News
In the last fiscal year, the board of supervisors created a countywide new fire and emergency services district levy that would allocate $0.11 of the $0.72 real estate tax rate to offset rising public safety costs. The balance of the real estate tax rate ($0.61) would be applied to fund other county services. In an administrative oversight, the fire and EMS district levy was not applied to mobile homes, which are taxed at the same rate as other real estate. The proposed 2021-22 budget would tax mobile homes at the same $0.72 rate, rather than the $0.61 rate from a year ago. Voorhees said the change amounts to approximately $4,030…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 2, 2021 | Comm Center News
The Bedford County 911 Center on Thursday reversed a controversial change it made four months ago by restoring a five-minute interval for ambulance services to commit to answering emergency calls.
Four months ago, the center reduced the time it gave ambulance services to muster a crew to about 2.5 minutes, because of increasingly long and increasingly frequent delays before patients received help, especially after COVID-19 mushroomed in Bedford County, according to officials…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 2, 2021 | Comm Center News
Weeks after Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 made national headlines for unveiling a sweeping proposal to replace the Ithaca Police Department with a civilian-led agency, the city and county have both approved the recommendations.
The plan includes 19 recommendations that aim to increase transparency, accountability and trust between local law enforcement and residents. But the recommendation that has gotten the most attention locally and nationally is the first — for the city to create a new department with armed workers, including previous IPD officers, and unarmed workers who will be trained to respond to different types of crises…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 2, 2021 | Comm Center News
As the Chittenden County Public Safety Authority thrusts ahead on its nearly $2.3 million effort to regionalize emergency dispatch, the voices on the other end of the phone worry how consolidation will distort their jobs.
“You lose that institutional knowledge when you take someone out of their community and put them into a new environment,” said Deb Kruger, who has dispatched in South Burlington for 40 years…
