Tag: Dispatch

NEW YORK -- The one minute, 52 seconds a Hicksville woman was on hold before she could report a stabbing to Nassau 911 operators last Saturday night falls into a ...

CHINO HILLS, Calif. -- Despite shaking a large swath of Southern California, a magnitude-5.4 earthquake was not the "Big One" that scientists have long feared. Still, it rattled nerves, causing ...

BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana is better prepared today to cope with emergencies thanks to an improved statewide communications plan, officials said. That plan is a change in radio communications that ...

WASHINGTON -- The way law enforcement, firefighters and paramedics talk to each other over the radios is changing. Instead of using "codes" to communicate with each other, some agencies are ...

After Sept. 11, our country entered a new era of policing. Departments around the country looked at their mission differently. Think back on some of the major changes:

When police officers in the Albion (Mich.) Department of Public Safety want to review reports on several incidents and look at photos of possible suspects, they don t have to ...

ESRI is offering free geographic information system (GIS) seminars in various areas of the country through June and July. Each seminar will explore GIS from the law enforcement perspective. Attendees ...

This month, our emphasis is on information technology, which has dramatically impacted policing over the past quarter century. Computers are commonplace in patrol cars, and there s a phenomenal amount ...

PLANTATION, Fla. -- Despite a two-minute conversation in which a 911 caller told an operator she was racing to the police station with a gunman in pursuit, police weren't dispatched ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Jersey City is $2.2 million closer to its goal of creating a state-of-the-art 911 emergency response center, officials announced last week. The $2.2 million grant from ...