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Public Safety Communications

Trends in Public Safety Communications

NG9-1-1, text to 9-1-1 and public safety broadband.

Posted Monday, May 20, 2013

APCO Conference 2012: A Reflection

The more 911 professionals I meet, the more family I get to know.

Posted Friday, September 28, 2012

Public Safety after 9/11

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

Posted Thursday, September 29, 2011

Checked Out

Does your agency require status checks every five minutes?

Posted Monday, August 1, 2011

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Tips for improving the relationship between officers and telecommunicators.

Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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

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 Friday, June 25, 2010

Standards Calls to Action

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

Posted Friday, June 25, 2010

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 Friday, June 25, 2010