Interim Police Chief Danny Baker in a Facebook post on Saturday morning explained why he did not publicly denounce former dispatcher Donna Reneau during a Thursday news conference about Reneau's Aug. 24 911 call with Stevens in her final moments, saying she "knew she...

The director of D.C.’s Office of Unified Communications is weighing in on how long it took dispatchers to send firefighters to battle a deadly blaze two weeks ago. Office of Unified Communications Director Karima Holmes told WTOP she is satisfied with how dispatchers...

ZANESVILLE - Amidst the daily chaos of law enforcement, fire and EMS, lies the men and women on the receiving end of 911. Dispatchers are literally the lifeline heroes of every emergency, according to  Kim Hambel, director of operations...

A groundbreaking ceremony of the new Holbrook Regional Emergency Communications Center (HRECC) will take place at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the Holbrook Public Safety Building, 300 South Franklin St. The public may attend the groundbreaking ceremony, Director of...

Macomb County’s flashy, modern communications center was plagued over the past three months by air and odor issues that sickened dispatchers and forced the transfer of the operation to Warren for weeks at a time. About 15 to 18 dispatchers at the Communications and...

Written by: Donny Jackson 30th August 2019 Sarasota County, Fla., yesterday announced that it has selected RapidDeploy to provide its 911 emergency communications center with a new cloud-based computer-aided dispatch (CAD)—or cloud-aided dispatch—in an effort to...

After a company that made software James City County police use to manage its records was sold in May, the new owner said it would no longer support the old systems. That prompted county officials to reconsider a merger between the county’s 911 dispatch center and the...

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Montgomery County’s Central Communications Center is one of more than two dozen Indiana counties awarded federal funding to help pay for upgrades to 911 equipment. A $2.8 million federal grant will benefit 29 public safety answering points across Indiana through the...

The Richland County Commissioners gave their OK Thursday for maintenance director Chuck Minich and the sheriff’s office to proceed with plans for remodeling 4,300 square feet of space at the People's Center to provide more room for the 9-1-1 dispatch center and...

It was April, 1989, when William Shatner debuted as the host of a new TV series, “Rescue 911.” It was one of the first reality TV shows that focused on police, firefighters, paramedics, and ordinary citizens as they respond to real 911 emergency phone calls. This...

The Richland County Commissioners gave their OK Thursday for maintenance director Chuck Minich and the sheriff’s office to proceed with plans for remodeling 4,300 square feet of space at the People's Center to provide more room for the 9-1-1 dispatch center and...

KNOX COUNTY, Ky. — The Knox County Fiscal Court adopted a resolution Tuesday during a fiscal court meeting to recognize all 911 dispatchers as first responders. Knox County Judge/Executive Mike Mitchell said this is something that is being done across the...

(Aug. 30, 2019) – Twenty-two law enforcement dispatchers graduated Friday from the Public Safety Dispatch Academy at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training. The graduates hail from communications centers across the state, and comprise DOCJT’s...

There’s controversy in Washington, DC over a fire that left a man and a nine-year-old boy dead. And there should be. Everyone needs to be angry over failures by two DC agencies to take preventive action at a home that was a fire trap. But what most everyone will miss,...

SAN ANTONIO - August 29, 2019 - ( Newswire.com ) ​​​Following a rigorous review process, the Visual 911+ app is now FirstNet Listed and available via the FirstNet App Catalog. FirstNet – America’s public safety communications platform – features the first-ever App...

A Hardin County E-911 telecommunicator has been selected as the 2019 NICE Public Safety PSAP’s Finest Tele­­com­mu­nicator of the Year. Kendra Murphy, 29, was recognized Tuesday with the national award during a Hardin Fiscal Court meeting. It was pre­sented to her by...

When Webster County residents call the 911 dispatch center to report an emergency, there will be two dispatchers ready to field those calls at any given time. “We are going to have two telecommunicators on every shift, 24/7,” said Dan Posluszny, project manager for...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Shortly before Perrie Mason vanished earlier this month, two 911 calls were made from her phone. Dispatchers did not hear anyone on the line and called her back, but still no response, according to her sister. Four days later, on Aug. 21, the...

COMANCHE CO. (KFDX/KJTL) — Phone lines at the Comanche County Emergency Communications Center are currently down. They are being rerouted through Altus Emergency Management to then be properly dispatched to Lawton first responders.