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Public Safety after 9/11

Former assistant LAPD Chief Mike Bostic on the future of public safety communications

Posted Thursday, September 29, 2011

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Checked Out

Does your agency require status checks every five minutes?

Posted Monday, August 1, 2011

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Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Tips for improving the relationship between officers and telecommunicators.

Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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Into the Island

After the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Harris Corp. sent three teams of communications personnel to the island to help reestablish and install communications systems.

Posted Friday, June 25, 2010

Calling All Prognosticators!

What will public safety communications look like in the year 2030?

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2010

8 Organizations Have Achieved APCO Project 33 Agency Training Program Certification

The following eight organizations have been notified they have achieved APCO Project 33 Agency Training Program Certification (Telecommunicator 2006) and will be recognized at the Annual Conference & Expo during the Distinguished Achiever's Awards Breakfast.

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2010

Standards Calls to Action

Comment and review on the latest APCO standards revisions and proposals.

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2010

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Making New-Age Plans

Digital pre-plans can aid the overall response from the fire service. They can be used while en route to and while on scene and allow responders to have updated building plans at their fingertips—information that can alert firefighters to pre-existing hazards and save lives. In late 2008, North Charleston (S.C.) Fire Department (NCFD) implemented a mobile digital pre-plan system, as well as a dispatching and mapping program.

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2010

Sex Offender Transactions

Registration of sex offenders allows the government authorities in the U.S. and abroad to keep track of the location and activities of sex offenders.

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2010

Public Safety Reacts to FCC Findings

On June 17, representatives from the Public Safety Alliance (PSA) called a press teleconference directly after a House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on the fate of the D Block, the 10 MHz of spectrum in the 700 band adjacent to public safety’s spectrum.

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2010


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