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APCO International Announces Recipients of 2017 Leadership in Policy Awards
March 13, 2017APCO International announces the recipients of its prestigious 2017 Public Safety Communications Leadership in Policy Awards, who will be honored during APCO’s Annual Public Safety Communications Leadership Dinner in Washington, DC, on May 17, 2017.
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisors: Paul M. Mayer (Ohio)
March 9, 2017Paul M. Mayer retired in 2014 after more than 46 years of service to the citizens of Ohio. Paul began his state service on April 29, 1968, as a communications officer at the Berea District 10 Headquarters (Ohio Turnpike) of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. He was transferred to the Massillon District 3 Headquarters where he continued to learn his craft. In 1980, he was promoted to radio technician 3 and sent back to Berea as the district chief technician where he primarily supervised highway patrol telecommunications operations across the 241-mile-long Ohio Turnpike and secondarily served as the Highway Patrol’s telecommunications liaison with the public safety community in northeastern Ohio.
Read full articleSmiths Interconnect Launches Brand Transition to Simplify Customer Access to Technologies and Solutions
March 6, 2017March 6, 2017 – Smiths Interconnect, a division of Smiths Group plc, today announces it is unifying its technology brands of…
Read full articleKodiak Completes Interoperability Testing for Zetron’s MAX Dispatch
March 3, 2017Plano, TX, March 2, 2017 – Kodiak, a leading provider of broadband push-to-talk solutions, announced today that it has completed testing…
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisors: Jesse Griggs (Tennessee)
March 2, 2017Jesse Griggs received his formal electronics training in the U.S. Navy where he was an aviation electronic technician. After he left the Navy, he went back to work with the Tennessee Department of Correction. Jesse held the following positions: correctional officer, correctional corporal, correctional sergeant, training specialist, radio communications technician 2, radio communications 3 and correctional program support coordinator- coordinator of communications and utilities. He retired with 37 years of service
Read full articleAPCO Welcomes Discussion Draft Bill on Next Generation 9-1-1
March 1, 2017U.S. Senators Nelson (FL) and Klobuchar (MN) released a draft bill, the “Next Generation 9-1-1 Act of 2017,” to further deployment of NG9-1-1 services and enhance and upgrade the nation’s 9-1-1 systems.
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisors: Gene Thaxton (Oklahoma)
February 23, 2017Gene Thaxton has been Oklahoma’s APCO frequency advisor since 1987. He is the Director of Oklahoma’s Law Enforcement Telecommunications System and is responsible for obtaining the first, forty 800 MHz channels to be issued by the Federal Communications System for Oklahoma’s 800 MHz Trunked System.
Read full articleWhat 9-1-1 Dispatchers Wish You Knew
February 23, 2017This article was originally posted at JDNews.com, February 6, 2017. Reprinted with permission. By Amanda Thames Just because a 9-1-1 telecommunicator is…
Read full articleTelecommunicator: ‘We are the strength behind our first responders’
February 23, 2017This article was originally posted at JDNews.com, January 27, 2017. Reprinted with permission. By Amanda Thames Editor’s Note: The First Responders Friday…
Read full articleFederal Engineering Chosen to Support San Francisco’s Public Safety Radio Replacement Project
February 16, 2017FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA, February 13, 2017 — The City and County of San Francisco, CA has chosen Federal Engineering, Inc. (FE)…
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