by ECC Editor | Jan 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
Mountain Valley Emergency Communications Center (MVECC), a regional public safety answering point serving the communities of New Providence, Summit, and Millburn, New Jersey, announces the implementation of Motorola Solutions CommandCentral Citizen Input, an application which will allow 9-1-1 callers to send pictures and video or “Incident Related Imagery” from an emergency scene to first responders through the 9-1-1 system. MVECC is the first public safety answering point in the state and the first in the northeastern part of the nation to operationalize this new public safety solution…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 5, 2021 | Comm Center News, Video
With a COVID-19 surge that is killing one person every 15 minutes in California’s Los Angeles County, the 911 emergency medical system has been stretched to the brink. [CLICK READ MORE TO VIEW VIDEO]…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
Kenneth J. Van Patten, age 85, of Punta Gorda, FL passed away December 9, 2020 at home. He worked for the Hennepin County Sheriff Department Minneapolis and later the Elk River Police Department and the Sherburne Country Sheriff Office. In his consulting career, he wrote many technical working papers related to wireless communications networking. He was a member of a number of organizations. He was a volunteer of Charlotte County Office of Emergency Management Communications group, The Association of Public Safety Communications Officers International…
by ECC Editor | Jan 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
HARTFORD, Conn. — A retired Connecticut State Police trooper who was among the first to respond to the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School has died of COVID-19, according to multiple police officials.
The CSP says retired Trooper First Class Patrick Dragon, of Brooklyn, Connecticut, died Saturday at Hartford Hospital.
Dragon, 50, retired from the state police on Feb. 1, 2018, and was working as a deputy chief of the East Brooklyn Fire Department and a police dispatcher in Foster, Rhode Island, before his death… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
CBS6’s Emily DeFeciani spoke with a man who has been employed as an Emergency Dispatcher in Albany for the last few years.
We are keeping him anonymous, for fear of losing his job.
Currently, according to the Albany Police Officers Union president, Greg McGee, the Albany dispatch center is down to 27 employees out of 42…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
After the county failed to negotiate a new contract with Gainesville Regional Utilities’ GRUCom for its public safety radio system, GRUCom billed the county $1.6 million — more than double the county’s usual cost for running the system, or else it could face a system shutdown.
County commissioners voted at Tuesday’s special meeting to send a letter to Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe stating that they want to negotiate a better deal but will seek an injunction to stop the system from being inaccessible if the bill isn’t paid on time…
