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Mandated Telecommunicator Training Takes Effect in Florida
January 5, 2012Here in Florida, one of the biggest changes that will be happening for the public safety telecommunicator is state-mandated standardized training (also known as the Denise Amber Lee Bill). Effective Oct. 1, 2012, all public safety telecommunicators must be state certified. It also calls for continuing education with recertification every two years.
Read full articleWoman Asks Dispatcher for Permission to Shoot Intruder
January 4, 2012BLANCHARD, Okla. (AP) — Authorities don’t plan to file charges against an Oklahoma woman who fatally shot a New Year’s…
Read full articleLARIAT Investigative Intervention Aids in Conviction
January 4, 2012Tacoma, Wash. (December 29, 2011) – The Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office convicted two Spanaway men arrested for weapons and drug charges after an extensive investigation. The joint investigation by the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was aided by the Law Enforcement Support Agency’s new real-time crime center, LARIAT (LESA Accelerated Response Using Integrated Analysis and Technology).
Read full articleFormer Deputy Director of the U.S. Marshals Service Joins the Envisage Management Team
January 4, 2012BLOOMINGTON, IN, January 3, 2011 – Envisage Technologies, a Bloomington, Indiana-based high-technology firm, announced today that Brian R. Beckwith has joined their management team as Vice President of Strategic Relations.
Read full articleSolacom Solution Provides the First Hosted Multi-County Regional 9-1-1 System in Florida
January 4, 2012Chicago, IL, January 5, 2012— Solacom Technologies has deployed a Guardian system to provide hosted services to 4 public safety answering points (PSAPs) in the Florida counties of Gulf, Franklin and Calhoun. The hosted system minimizes the amount of equipment required at each PSAP and provides a cost effective path to transition from TDM technology and T1 lines, to the newer Internet Protocol that will form the basis of next generation 9-1-1 services.
Read full articleVoiceVault Advanced Wireless Microphone Now Available With Digital Ally’s DVM-500Plus In-Car Video System
January 4, 2012Digital Ally, Inc., which develops and sells advanced law enforcement video systems, speed guns and fleet event recorders, announced that all new orders of the DVM-500Plus In-Car Video System will now include the VoiceVault™ Advanced Wireless Microphone at no additional cost to the customer.
Read full articleMixup Caused Dispatch Worries
January 3, 2012A high-profile murder and suicide earlier this year in Winslow highlighted concern among police officials that emergency responders could be dispatched to wrong street addresses.
Read full articleEffort Underway to Upgrade WCO’s Radios
January 3, 2012You might think, in this age of instant access, that all law enforcement officers are outfitted equally, equipment-wise. You’d be wrong.
Read full articleNew Call Center Will Provide 9-1-1 Backup
January 3, 2012After months of meetings among El Paso County’s top lawmen, the agency that handles the region’s 911 has decided to spend $3.5 million on a backup call center.
Read full articlePolice Dispatchers Seek Clothes, Toys to Assist Abused Children
January 2, 2012A small effort started by a group of police dispatchers has snowballed into a public collection of toys and clothing for two West Side girls who were abused and neglected and found by authorities days before Christmas.
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