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Another 9-1-1 Address Mix-Up Highlights the Need for Change
August 22, 2011WATERVILLE, Maine — Another address mix-up that occurred during a 911 call this week highlights the importance of taking new measures to minimize such mistakes, the city’s police chief says.
Read full article911 Files Don’t Show Why Police Were Sent to Wrong Address
August 22, 2011AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Department of Public Safety on Friday released written transcripts of the 911 calls involving the murder of Sarah Gordon in Winslow the night of June 6, shedding new light on the emergency response to the killing. But the transcripts, which were created in response to an open records request by the Morning Sentinel, still don’t answer a fundamental question: Why were police initially dispatched to the wrong address?
Read full articleProCHRT’s Final Report
August 19, 2011The APCO International Professional Communications Human Resources Taskforce (ProCHRT) released its final report and recommendations on Aug. 5 during the APCO conference in Philadelphia. During the Aug. 7 First General Business Session in Philadelphia, task force Chair Steve Souder told the APCO leadership, “For the last year, the [ProCHRT] task force gathered information and stats. Unfortunately today, even though that [final] report is 51 pages, it still rates an F.”
Read full articleHarris Corp.’s BeOn Offers P25 Voice over 3G Cellular & LTE Networks
August 19, 2011MELBOURNE, Fla., Aug. 8, 2011 — Harris Corporation announced that its BeOn enables public safety subscribers on a cellular or public safety LTE network to talk to each other, exchange text messages and pass real-time location information to connected team members and the dispatcher’s computer-assisted dispatch system.
Read full articleMotorola Solutions Helps Law Enforcement Agencies Accelerate Public Safety LTE Adoption
August 19, 2011PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8, 2011 — Motorola Solutions Inc. announced the LTE Cloud Core Service as an offering available within its suite of Public Safety Managed Services. The LTE Cloud Core Service builds on Motorola’s experience in network management for public safety agencies and provides customers deploying Public Safety LTE technology a choice of implementation models.
Read full articleEl Paso County 9-1-1 Communications Deploys onBoard Mobile Gateway for County-Wide Communications
August 19, 2011El Paso, Texas, and Vancouver, BC, Aug. 15, 2011 — In Motion Technology, the leader in mobile networking technologies that efficiently connect and manage equipment, information and people in the field, announced today that El Paso County Enhanced 9-1-1 Emergency Communications District is deploying the onBoard Mobile Gateway as the single communications platform to support a county-wide initiative that will improve situational awareness.
Read full articleLubbock, Texas, Goes Live with Tiburon IQResponse
August 19, 2011On the same day Tiburon is announcing IQResponse — its newest public safety software offering — the company is also announcing the City of Lubbock, Texas as its first live IQResponse customer. Lubbock has been using all of the IQResponse components as their production system since June.
Read full articleAPCO Awards Contract to ATDI Inc.
August 19, 2011Daytona Beach, Fla., Aug. 11, 2011— AFC, the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International’s Spectrum Management Division is pleased to announce the selection of ATDI, Inc. as their Radio Frequency (RF) network engineering software platform vendor.
Read full articleAndrew Seybold Honored by APCO International for Contributions to Public Safety Communications
August 19, 2011Santa Barbara, California, Aug. 11, 2011 — Andrew M. Seybold was honored with the Presidential Award of the Associated Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO International ) during the association’s 77th Annual Conference and Exposition Meeting in Philadelphia August 7-11 in Philadelphia.
Read full articleThe National Emergency Communications Plan
August 18, 2011Over the past 10 years, the federal government and public safety agencies have invested significant resources to update the nation’s emergency communications capabilities. To encourage a coordinated approach and wise investments, the DHS Office of Emergency Communications has launched key initiatives.
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