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Virginia: Program for Police Focuses on Mentally Ill
May 29, 2013The store manager wanted the loud intruder gone. The police officers had to do something. They could have arrested him. Instead, they listened patiently to his ramblings – defusing delusion with calm authority – and eventually convinced him to walk with them outside. It was all part of their training, carried out last week during a role-playing exercise at the Roanoke Police Academy.
Read full articleWashington: Four Failures Led to Outage
May 29, 2013It was failure upon failure, four times over, that shut down Spokane County’s 911 system for nearly a half-hour in November.
Read full articleKansas: 9-1-1 Dispatchers Call for Help Amid Long Hours, High Stress
May 29, 2013“911. What is your emergency?”
“We are terribly short-staffed, and the overtime is stressing us.”
Conn. Bill Gives Families Say Over Newtown Records
May 23, 2013HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The public release of any photograph, videotape or digital recording related to last year’s deadly Newtown elementary school shooting would require the written consent of victims’ family members, according to a working draft of a bill released Wednesday by the governor’s office.
Read full articlePocket-Dialing 911 Leads to Fla. Murder Charge
May 23, 2013FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed 911.
Read full article‘Human Error’ Led to 9-1-1 Call Meltdown in Memphis, Tenn.
May 23, 2013Starting between 3 and 4 p.m. Wednesday and continuing until just after 8 p.m. that night, the local 911 system was flooded with “phantom” calls, Shelby County Emergency Communications director Raymond Chiozza said.
Read full articleCivilians to Staff Combined 9-1-1 Call Center in Columbus, Ohio
May 23, 2013Columbus plans to consolidate its police and fire 911 call centers and replace uniformed dispatchers with civilians, a move that drew a threat of a political “bloodbath” from the firefighters’ union president.
Read full articleCalifornia: Suspects Mistakenly Dial 9-1-1 During Crime
May 23, 2013FRESNO, Calif. — Two California men were in custody on Monday after accidentally dialing 911 on a cellphone before breaking into a car, authorities said.
Read full articleNational Response Framework, 2nd Edition Released
May 15, 2013The National Response Framework is a guide to how the nation responds to all types of disasters and emergencies. It…
Read full articleNew Communications Tower a Matter of Public Safety
May 15, 2013Sorry folks, the location for a new radio communications tower to improve 9-1-1 service isn’t an appropriate one for a case of NIMBY [not in my backyard]. It’s a matter of public safety.
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