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Tennessee Highway Patrol Announces New Statewide Interoperable Communications System in Use in Chattanooga District
June 3, 2013Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons and Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) Colonel Tracy Trott recenlty announced the Chattanooga THP district is the first to use a new statewide interoperable communications system.
Read full articleFirstNet Board Establishes Committee to Review Issues Raised by Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald
May 29, 2013WASHINGTON – The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) Board voted to establish a Special Review Committee that will review issues raised by Board member Sherriff Paul Fitzgerald at FirstNet’s April 23, 2013, Board meeting.
Read full articleCalifornia: Dispatchers Settle into Home
May 29, 2013For Steve Powell, the relocation of Riverside’s public safety dispatch center last month was the fulfillment of a promise made many times over the years, sometimes by people who have since retired.
Read full articleVirginia: 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.”
Portland, Maine Deploys GeoBlade Suite for Public Safety GIS
May 28, 2013Portland had recently deployed a suite of ArcGIS Server based public safety tools from Geographic Technologies Group (GTG).
Read full articleConn. 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.
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