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CPRA 2011 Dispatcher Awards
April 21, 2011On April 14, the Southern California Chapter of APCO (CPRA) hosted its 23rd annual Telecommunicator Awards banquet at the Quiet Cannon in Montebello, Calif. There were more that 250 award winners, family, friends and co-workers in attendance to celebrate and to help honor their peers.
Read full articlePowerPhone Names Gary S. Moore, Dr.P.H., as Director of Training
April 21, 2011PowerPhone, Inc., a leading provider of 9-1-1 emergency call handling systems , announced the appointment of Gary S. Moore, Dr.P.H., as its Director of Training. Dr. Moore comes to PowerPhone from Judge Med, formerly the Training Education and Certification Centers (TECC) for cardiovascular surgeons, where he served as the eLearning Director, delivering interactive, multimedia-rich online training programs to major pharmaceutical firms and medical manufacturers.
Read full articlePANASONIC AND COPSYNC PARTNER TO DELIVER REAL-TIME, IN-VEHICLE DATA COLLECTION AND INFORMATION SHARING
April 21, 2011Secaucus, NJ and Dallas, TX April 20, 2011 – Panasonic Solutions Company, provider of collaboration, information-sharing and decision-support solutions for government and commercial enterprises, and COPsync, Inc. (OTCQB:COYN), provider of information and data sharing networks, have partnered to provide law enforcement agencies with a common network for real-time access to data direct from a mobile computing device. This solution will work seamlessly with Panasonic Toughbook® products, enabling agencies subscribed to the network to connect and communicate across jurisdictional boundaries in real time.
Read full articleFCC Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn Addresses the Women of APCO International
April 21, 2011On April 14, attendees of APCO International’s 2011 Women in Public Safety Communications Leadership Conference had the opportunity to hear FCC Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn speak on topics important to their lives and careers in public safety communications.
Read full articleCity of Stillwater, Oklahoma Selects Tropos’ Wireless Broadband Network for Water AMI and More
April 21, 2011SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Tropos Networks, the best-of-breed provider of wireless IP broadband networks for the smart grid, announces that the City of Stillwater’s Department of Water Utilities has completed installation of a Tropos GridCom network as the communications infrastructure for backhaul of their water automatic meter infrastructure (AMI) rollout. The goal of the $8.6 million water AMI program, funded in part by a $1.42 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grant, is to improve operational efficiencies and billing accuracy as well as overall service to 18,000 residential and commercial water customers.
Read full articleDispatchers Have Their Say at Adams Town Meeting
April 21, 2011Adams, Ma. — A pair of Adams Police dispatchers are speaking out before voters at Town Meeting whether to keep the town’s emergency services dispatch center or farm it out to a countywide agency to save money.
Read full articleCharleston 9-1-1 Center Aids FCC Probe in Maryland
April 21, 2011Kanawha County, W.Va. — Kanawha County 911 Center officials are cooperating with a Federal Communications Commission investigation of 911 outages in Maryland. FCC engineers interviewed Kanawha County 911 Director Carolyn Charnock last week, after reading reports about a similar 911 emergency failure in Charleston during an April 5 storm.
Read full articleUniversity of Tampa Honor Student Named Fire Dispatcher of the Year
April 21, 2011Temple Terrace, Fla. — Stacey Auguste, a four-year veteran of the Temple Terrace communications center, was named 2010 Fire Dispatcher of the Year on April 12 by Fire Chief Keith Chapman.
Read full articleAPCO’s Orlando Roundtable
April 20, 2011The evolution of technology, from Next Generation 9-1-1 to social media, is increasing the number of platforms citizens can use — or want to use — to reach emergency services and the backbones by which these “calls” are transmitted. This concept was a common thread throughout the technical and operations discussions during APCO International’s third Technology Roundtable.
Read full articleCPRA 2011 Technical Awards
April 20, 2011On April 14, the Southern California Chapter of APCO (CPRA), hosted its annual National Public Safety Telecommunications Week Awards banquet. Earlier in the day, it honored those who design and maintain those systems that make dispatching possible. A number of qualified candidates were nominated making the selection process difficult.
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