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The Comm Center According to Jerry Sprouse
October 21, 2010Jerry Sprouse has been with the New Kent County (Va.) Sheriff’s Office since 1979 and has progressively achieved many accolades during his 30-plus year career, all while being blind. Sprouse lost his eyesight completely in his mid-teens, but has shown true courage and is an asset to his agency.
Read full articleCounty Asks City to Pay for Dispatch Costs
October 20, 2010Chelan, Wash. — Chelan County Commissioners sent a letter notifying the city of Chelan that the entities have a year to renegotiate their law enforcement contract to include an estimated $120,000 to pay for dispatch services.
Read full articleMaine Counties May Share Dispatch Upgrades
October 20, 2010Farmington, Maine — A taxpayer investment in public safety technology in Somerset County could make a new emergency dispatch system more affordable in Franklin County. Officials from both counties met Tuesday to discuss how recent improvements could be shared to allow the region’s emergency dispatch centers and public safety agencies to better respond to emergencies, track criminals and store and share data.
Read full articleNew World Systems Enhances Decision Making & Access to Mission Critical Data for Public Safety Agencies
October 20, 2010Troy, Mich. — New World Systems is arming public safety supervisors and command staff with an intuitive and highly effective…
Read full articleNew Getac S400 Semi-Rugged Notebook Designed Specifically For Utilities, Public Safety, Field Service, And Military Applications
October 20, 2010Irvine, Calif. — Getac Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of rugged computers that meet the demands of field-based applications,…
Read full articleTerreStar Networks Petitions for Bankruptcy & Restructures
October 19, 2010Reston, Va. — TerreStar Corporation (NASDAQ: TSTR) (“TerreStar”) announced today that its majority-owned subsidiary TerreStar Networks Inc. and certain other…
Read full articleIntrado & Charlotte County, Fla., Team to Launch Next-Generation 9-1-1 Services Network
October 19, 2010Longmont, Colo. — The emergency services network supporting more than 165,000 residents in southwest Florida is now one of the…
Read full articleL.R. Kimball Hires Former Pa. Emergency Management Association State 9-1-1 Director
October 19, 2010Ebensburg, Pa. — L.R. Kimball, (www.lrkimball.com) one of America’s leading providers of architecture, engineering, and communications technology services, recently added Robert Wentzel,…
Read full articleNew CPR Guidelines
October 18, 2010Two of the three pillars of CPR — opening a distressed person’s airway and providing mouth-to-mouth breathing — turn out to be not so essential when it comes to saving the life of someone in cardiac arrest. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation should begin with forceful chest compressions to keep the blood circulating through the body, according to new guidelines released today by the American Heart Association. And people who haven’t been trained in CPR need not bother with providing air-passage clearance and mouth-to-mouth breathing at all, the group said.
Read full articleStates Use Canines to Find Cell Phones in Prisons
October 18, 2010They’ve been finding hidden bombs, drugs and corpses for years, using their sense of smell to locate what their human handlers would otherwise have to see in plain sight. Now dogs are being deployed in prisons to help curb one of the most serious problems confronting corrections officials: smuggled cell phones.
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