911 and Dispatch
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As much as you would like it, you can’t expect to be everyone’s hero. The trauma a victim is experiencing is theirs to handle, not your burden to assume
One student talks to 911 operators while a classmate attempts to tend to his bleeding neck and chest
Deputy Jaron Fountain crashed into a ditch while responding to a burglary in progress that was discovered to be false
Police received a frantic 911 call from a woman, a passenger in a pickup truck, who was screaming for help. When the call disconnected abruptly, the dispatcher used the phone’s GPS to track the truck
Vermont became the first to offer the technology statewide Monday
Business co-owner called 911 and told the dispatcher not to send police
Denver police officials blame their delayed response to a woman who was killed 12 minutes into a 911 call on a dispatcher who failed to relay information to officers
Woman called from a Subway to complain that employees had put marinara sauce on her ‘flatizza’ instead of pizza sauce
The CEO of Nextdoor, a social network designed to help neighbors connect with each other and police, was charged Wednesday
Dispatcher tells him she doesn’t have a clue
Agencies believe that texting to 911 is the next step forward for emergency response and policing
The shooting happened when Lafayette officers responded to a series of 911 hang-up calls
More than 70 emergency responders swarmed a home Tuesday, in what turned out to be a revenge hoax
Police officials said internal investigation will focus on the time it took officers to respond to the home, and whether dispatchers properly prioritized call
Authorities say a toddler has been reunited with his mother after employees found him playing inside a claw crane machine
Police in Louisville, Ky., say a man called 911 after falling from a ladder and breaking his leg in the middle of a home break-in
A DeKalb County 911 Operator spent months training, but never imagined she would get a call from her own family just four hours into her first day
The officer and EMT raced to the scene, while 911 dispatchers provided information over the phone
Suspect told dispatchers that when officers arrived, he was going to shoot them like “T-Bone Taylor” did
The killing of Kari Hunt Dunn spurred a petition that has garnered more than 440,000 signatures demanding hotels and motels be required to enable the direct dialing of 911
Woman was arrested for misuse of 911 after repeatedly asking dispatchers to send an officer to her home for sex
Tampa police say at least half of the 911 calls the department receives have nothing to do with life and death emergencies
These conversations are the ones a 911 operator wants to have with officers and citizens alike
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