Posts From External News Source
Dispatcher Keeps Girl Calm During Home Robbery
March 22, 2013Veteran police dispatcher kept young girl safe during home invasion.
Read full articleWest Virginia: New 9-1-1 System Accelerates Response Times
March 21, 2013On a “cool” scale of one to 10, Kanawha County’s new computerized 911 dispatch system is about an 11.
Read full article9-1-1 Thriller Gets Hung Up on Cheesy Melodrama
March 20, 2013“The Call” is an extreme-jeopardy thriller that holds its audience in a hypnotic degree of tension most of the way – up until the end when it sinks to the level of a TV movie.
Read full articleNew Jersey County’s Dispatch System Getting Upgrade
March 20, 2013“That’s true interoperability,” said James Jankowski, county public safety department’s chief of communications [Camden County]. “It’s not a sound bite.”
Read full articleMassachusetts: Home Rule, Independence Regionalizing Town Services a Challenge to Communities
March 20, 2013It seems everyone wants to cut the cost of municipal government. But in New England, with its firmly rooted history of home rule and Yankee independence, collaborating to share services across community borders has often been a challenge.
Read full articleFCC Extends Deadline for Membership Nominations Until April 12, 2013, for Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council
March 20, 2013On February 12, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) opened nominations and expressions of interest for membership on the rechartered Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC or Council), a federal advisory committee that provides recommendations to the Commission on ways it can improve the security, reliability, and interoperability of the nation’s communications systems. The original deadline for nominations and expressions of interest was March 20, 2013. By this Public Notice, the deadline to submit nominations and expressions of interest is extended to April 12, 2013. There is no change in the procedures for submitting nominations and expressions of interest, which are set forth below.
Read full articleFlorida: Man Calls 9-1-1 after Setting Fire
March 14, 2013Authorities say a convicted arsonist called 9-1-1 to report his neighbor’s house was on fire and then sat in his yard, drinking beer as fire consumed the house.
Read full articleTennessee: Emergency 9-1-1 Center Improves Call Times
March 12, 2013In 2012, 96 percent of the 215,276 emergency calls dispatchers received were answered before the second ring.
Read full articleSalt Lake City Police: Self-Described ‘Next Osama’ Made More Than 100 Threats via 9-1-1
March 11, 2013Salt Lake City police said the threats were made to police officers in general, not specific individuals.
Read full articleMissouri: Sales Tax Proposal Asks Voters to Pay for Major Changes to 9-1-1 Services
March 11, 2013To increase the ranks of workers who take those calls and build an $11.3 million center to house the operations, among other improvements, Boone County government will ask voters in April to approve a three-eighths-cent sales tax to fund combined 9-1-1 and emergency management services.
Read full article