Police Dispatch Equipment News & Articles

• Remote dispatching gives Arlington ECC an edge in operations, staffing

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  Remote desktop units have enabled an ECC to maintain operations during large-scale emergencies even when employees are unable to report to the 911 center

• When UI/UX becomes life or death

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  In the public safety space, ease and usability of software is mission critical

• Live-streaming 911 calls: An innovative approach to officer response

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  Software allows patrol officers to monitor incoming 911 calls in their immediate area providing the ability to hear information in real time

• Axon announces new products to improve police efficiencies, community safety

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  Offerings range from peer intervention virtual reality training to a transformed 911 experience

• Getting your officers ready for NIBRS

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  The clock is ticking for police personnel to get on board with the National Incident-Based Reporting System

• On-Demand Webinar: Gaining situational awareness and sharing information using digitally-enabled 911 services with NGA911

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  Learn how next-generation 911 will help responders navigate COVID-19

• The "love/hate" relationship between cops and their dispatchers

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  Having spent time on both sides of the dispatch center, I’d like to make just a few suggestions for making life easier – and safer – for each other

• The role of the public safety telecommunicator in COVID-19 response

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  It is critical that agencies prepare, educate and train dispatchers to evaluate the signs and symptoms of COVID-19

• TechFest event looks to the future of translation for text-to-911

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  There is an increasingly pressing need for PSAPs to be able to translate text-to-911 messages sent in languages other than English

• High-tech dispatch tool will help Ohio county dispatchers track mobile phone users

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  Software and hardware will be installed at dispatch centers that will give dispatchers immediate location data within 3 feet of the mobile phone being used

• When disaster hits: Improving communications interoperability (eBook)

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  Communication problems, especially reliability and interoperability, are widespread and complicate preparedness, training and response

• 4 ways ProQA increases law enforcement agencies’ efficiency in police call taking

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  Improve your agency’s ability to manage police calls quickly and effectively

• Should dispatchers be officially classified as first responders?

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  911 call takers and dispatchers are not considered first responders according to the Office of Management and Budget

• Who is that voice on the other side of the radio?

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  Though those voices on the other side of the radio are nearly ubiquitous, many officers don’t know a lot about their dispatchers

• 10 minutes pass before police respond to 911 calls of Colo. gunman

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  Dispatchers prioritized the call as a burglary, but officers were tied up on other calls

• 4 awesome dispatch features in ProQA Paramount software

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  Learn about how ProQA Paramount uses IAED protocols and other cool features to help call takers improve situational awareness for cops

• How Priority Dispatch software reduced call taker anxiety, improved 9-1-1 service in Prince George’s County

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  The Prince George’s County (Md.) Public Safety Communications Center deployed ProQA Paramount to decrease call taker anxiety, improve service and tailor its training program

• What IAED protocols are and why you need to adopt them

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  IAED protocols help calltakers ask the right questions, provide better service and ensure first-responder situational awareness

• Pryme releases new headsets, mics for dispatchers

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  Pryme radio products have released a new line of headphones, accessories and mics for law enforcement

• Report: Emergency communications failed in LAX shooting

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  An LAX police dispatcher who received a call seconds after a gunman opened fire last year didn't know where to send officers because no one was on the line

• Calif. police upgrade dispatch center, crusiers

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  By Daniel Carson The News-Messenger  FREMONT, Calif. — The Fremont Police Department will soon use a state grant to put in a new recording system for its dispatch center and new police cruiser comp...

• Police release 911 tapes in child poisoning case

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  As he drove himself to a hospital, an Ariz. man calmly told dispatchers he was stabbed multiple times by his ex-wife

• FCC addresses 911 services at APCO 2013

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  The FCC and public safety professionals share the desire to provide reliable and accurate emergency response

• Rebanding concerns dominate FCC spectrum policy update at APCO 2013

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  FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau honcho David Furth led a discussion that ranged from narrowbanding to the new rules governing 700 MHz

• Text messaging comes to 911

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  New Orleans is the test bed for Motorola's PremierOne CAD Call Control Client product

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