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Las Vegas P.D. Debriefs Public Safety Community on Harvest Music Festival Shooting
August 7, 2018APCO 2018 conference goers were riveted Monday to the sounds, images, video, panic and pain associated with the Las Vegas…
Read full articleAPCO 2018 Opening General Session
August 7, 2018APCO 2018’s Opening General Session featured awards to top performers in the industry and an inspiring speech from the first Medal of Honor winner since Vietnam who lived to see the award.
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August 7, 2018Get caught up on some of yesterday’s sessions at APCO 2018 with the Monday wrap-up.
Read full articleAPCO Launches APCO IntelliComm™ in an Ohio 9-1-1 Center
August 6, 2018APCO International announced today that the Union Township Police Department (OH) has launched the first live installation of APCO IntelliComm, a new configurable system designed to streamline the way emergency communications centers gather and process data in real-time from 9-1-1 calls while improving the guidance about the incident they provide to both the responder and the citizen in distress.
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August 5, 2018Get caught up on some of yesterday’s sessions at APCO 2018 with the Sunday wrap-up.
Read full articleFirst General Business Session of APCO 2018
August 5, 2018APCO International concluded the first day of the 2018 annual conference with its first general business session where members approved…
Read full articleAPCO Announces New Executive Leadership Program Graduates
July 24, 2018APCO International is pleased to announce that the following individuals have earned the Certified Public-Safety Executive (CPE) designation.
Read full articleJuly 2018 CPE Graduation Address
July 24, 2018Class president Maureen A. Will, RPL, addressed CPE Class 04 at its July 19, 2018, commencement ceremony. The journey for…
Read full articleAPCO Seeks Comments on Draft Incident Handling Process Standard
July 19, 2018Alexandria, Va. – The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International is seeking comments on a Candidate American National Standard…
Read full articlePublic Safety Grade Communications Radios: Then and Now
July 19, 2018Police radios in the United States first appeared around the late 1920s. The first efforts were fraught with challenges, where the Department of Commerce (preceding the Federal Communications Commission) was not supportive of the concept or value of police radios.
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