911 and Dispatch
When the chief takes all the dispatchers to lunch in celebration of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, someone has to answer the radio!
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Robert D. Collins was charged with two misdemeanor counts alleging improper use of the 911 system and possession of drug paraphernalia
Suspect immediately began shooting when the two officers arrived — resulting in a 15 minute gun battle in which all 3 were injured
Decade-long, multi-billion dollar effort to overhaul its 911 system is $700 million over budget and years behind schedule
Distraught woman messaged police this week telling them she was going to hurt herself, but she refused to pick up her phone
Police Chief William McCollom called 911 around 4:15 a.m. and reported shooting his wife, Margaret, inside the couple’s bedroom
Police arrived four minutes after a 911 call reporting an attempted suicide, to find the bodies of 4
In less than a week, someone had made more than 4K calls to 911. At one point, emergency dispatcher Kari Bueno was receiving three to four calls a minute
Veteran dispatchers failed to inform first responders that gunman had threatened to shoot police if they came to his residence in prior incident
Two young brothers are likely hoping they haven’t landed on Santa’s naughty list after police showed up at their doorstep
Relatives of a woman who was found fatally beaten more than six hours after a neighbor first called 911 are suing Denver and some of its dispatchers
Man who called 911 to report a suspicious car on Halloween was fired upon several times by officers who mistook him for an armed suspect
Officer opened fire after man wielding dual knives took a fighting stance and yelled, “you’re gonna shoot me, you’re gonna shoot me”
According to deputies, the man asked the dispatcher how she felt about handcuffs
FDNY officials say dispatchers worked manually during the outage and sent out emergency crews by radio
As police raced to a high school last week in response to reports of a possible shooter, they faced the daunting task of trying to secure a maze of buildings
At one point, the dispatcher noted that she could hear a bubbling sound as if something was cooking
Man has been charged with making three 911 calls to report bogus emergencies simply because he was lonely and wanted paramedics to show up
Police arrested a man for drugs after he pocket-dialed 911 and dispatchers heard him talking about getting high and going to a drug dealer’'s house
The police reports say that immediately after the shooting, the girl said she felt the gun was too much for her and had hurt her shoulder
Police arrived at a downtown bar as dispatchers relayed initial witness 911 reports that the suspect had opened fire into the club
A 911 dispatcher is in trouble over his response to a mother who called for help after her 10-month-old son accidentally locked himself in her car
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Two-way radio, wearable microcomputer, and handheld device help process and organize information so you can focus on your job
New vehicle radio extender offers portable radio coverage extension for public safety
New solution provides first responders with 4G/LTE coverage and capacity in one hour
Text-to-911 software suite captures data in a new way
Police are praising a dispatcher for persuading a gunman to surrender after he allegedly shot and killed three people, wounded two others and fired on officers
The drunken, inappropriate remarks and catcalls coming from the loudspeaker of a marked Broward sheriff’s patrol car had bystanders scratching their heads
A man has been charged after sending lewd photos to an officer who responded to his call of a suspicious vehicle in his neighborhood
Dispatcher has resigned after failing to relay key information to officers responding to a woman who was killed 12 minutes into a call
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