Tag: Dispatch

The murderous acts of twisted gunmen continue. In my state at Northern Illinois University (NIU), students came under deadly attack. A brother officer told me his daughter was in the ...

The Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) held its fifth annual Winter Summit Jan. 28 30 in Orlando, Fla. Much of the final day was focused on 700 MHz ...

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 go ...

Southern California recently went through a series of firestorms unlike any the area has experienced in recorded history. Raging fires fanned by strong inland winds roared across hundreds of thousands ...

There s no doubt the police environment challenges equipment, and because cops have little tolerance for gear that lets them down, it makes sense that one of the most common ...

Interoperability is a key word circulating among the law enforcement community these days. Since the Sept. 11 disaster, more and more public safety initiatives have taken shape to reach the ...

On July 31, the FCC adopted a major decision that will set the stage for the deployment of a nationwide broadband public safety network in the 700-MHz band. The order ...

The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) published a revision to its Public Safety Communications Accreditation Program s manual, Standards for Public Safety Communications Agencies. This second edition ...

In 1998, an eight-hour closure on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Washington, D.C., had a lot of first responders talking. Unfortunately, not to each other. A jumper on the bridge ...

Communications remains one of the most vital requirements for officer safety and management of critical incidents. Unfortunately, it s frequently one of the first things to suffer when a disaster ...