by ECC Editor | Feb 20, 2021 | Comm Center News
The Yuba City Police Department plans to use a $107,000 state grant this year to purchase new equipment for patrol, traffic, its hostage negotiations team and SWAT.
Yuba City Police Chief Rob Landon said state funding was awarded to local law enforcement entities over the last several years in the form of a California Citizens’ Option for Public Safety (COPS) grant. The funding is dedicated to frontline law enforcement purposes… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 20, 2021 | Comm Center News
Local public servants received top honors for bravery and much-deserved praise at the 2021 Valor Awards on Wednesday, Feb. 17, held at the Infinite Energy Forum. The event, hosted by Gwinnett Chamber and presented by Mobile Communications America and Motorola Solutions, honored the men and women who have performed heroic and extraordinary acts to protect and serve the citizens of Gwinnett…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2021 | Comm Center News
HALIFAX, N.S. — Nova Scotia RCMP 911 police dispatchers will soon answer emergency calls out of a new communications centre at its headquarters in Dartmouth.
In a news release Friday, Nova Scotia RCMP said its dispatchers will begin working out of the operation communications centre on Wednesday.
Glen Byrne, commander of the Nova Scotia RCMP OCC, said when the force began this project in 2018, they travelled to dispatch centres across the country to see what is considered best practices…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2021 | Comm Center News
In her five years as a telecommunicator in Florida, Christine Sebris answered more than 30,000 911 calls, but never had a call like Saturday. “It was around 5 am,” Sebris said. “I called a woman with uterine contractions during labor.” In the 911 phone recording, I hear Sebris talking first to the woman in labor and then to her roommate. “She says she’s bleeding,” she told her roommate. “Did her water break?” Sebris followed up when her roommate said her water wasn’t broken. “She says her contractions are back-to-back. Did she time them or do they feel that way?” Sebris gave birth to her daughter two years ago. So I understood the worries and fears I was hearing over the phone…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2021 | Comm Center News
HANFORD — The Kings County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man after he called 911 multiple times in one day and falsely reported emergencies, they said.
On Wednesday, officials said the Hanford Police Department Dispatch Center received a 911 call from a male subject, later identified as Heath Brazil, who stated he was at his residence in the 13400 block of 7th Avenue in Hanford. Once on the line with the emergency dispatcher, officials said Heath asked if he was speaking to the “real” 911 and asked to be transferred to the Kings County Sheriff’s Office…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2021 | Comm Center News
As winter weather conditions move through the Two Virginias, 911 dispatchers in Tazewell County were prepared for what the snow and ice could bring.
Every phone call for help from every corner of Tazewell County comes into this room.
“The job can be very stressful. Your emotions it’s a roller, some days there’s nothing, other days it just seems like the world has gone crazy,” Supervisor of the Tazewell County 911 Center, Michelle Alley said…
