Jan. 6—URBANA — Ten seconds may not seem like a lot of time. But in a life-or-death scenario, every second counts, said METCAD Deputy Director Jeffrey Wooten. METCAD is working to implement a new ...

First responders around the state have a new advantage when responding to emergencies, thanks to upgrades happening to dispatch systems around Connecticut. Dispatchers in Norwalk are the latest to get ...

After days of resorting to old techniques to track calls for service when their dispatch system crashed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says that they've successfully found a temporary ...

A long-debated proposal to bring the city of Spokane fully into the regional 911 dispatch system collapsed this week with the Spokane Regional Emergency Communications board voting to end negotiations ...

True to the Department of the Interior and Local Governments’ (DILG) vision of providing the country with a world-class ...

Since Tuesday night, Dec. 31, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been manually tracking and responding to calls for service, using only their radios, phones, pen and notepad, after the ...

For the second time in just over a month, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's computer dispatch system crashed on Wednesday evening, rendering patrol car computers unusable and forcing ...