Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Summer 2011 Newsletter
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
EMD Saves Child
A New Haven (Conn.) dispatcher helped save a four year-old boy who was found unconscious in a backyard swimming pool on Monday. David Mancini used EMD protocol cards to give the 911 caller instructions, and that person then relayed them to another person at the pool. The child survived and is expected to recover.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Teaching Children How/When to Call 9-1-1 Is Very Important
6 Year Old Miami Girl Makes 9-1-1 Call
Please pass this information along. It could save someone's life.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Borger PD Is Hiring !
NOTICE OF VACANCY BORGER POLICE DEPARTMENT
A job opening will be available in the Police Department for a 911 Dispatcher. The starting salary
for this position will be $2273.85 a month or $1049.47 bi-weekly based on the applicant
qualifications.
JOB SUMMARY:
Acts as receptionist and operates central base radio equipment and provides timely and accurate transmittal of information and messages regarding police operations. Receive and send messages in the police communications center during an assigned shift.
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ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Incumbent will have the responsibility for the operation of the central base radio equipment by answering incoming radio and telephone calls, including 911 operations, dispatching police patrol cars, fire and EMS vehicles to emergencies, maintain accurate account of the location of patrol cars, assists police officers in locating streets and addresses and maintain radio dispatch logs; prepare required reports; operate teletype, receives and relays information to the state police, county sheriff, and various other law enforcement agencies; look up numbers for stolen cars; check wanted persons by name and date of birth; act as receptionist, receives fines, books prisoners, orders their meals, and maintains records of time in jail, monitors burglar alarms; notify ambulance, towing services, road maintenance crews, signal light crews, and the Fire Department when necessary; perform other duties as assigned. =================================================================
OTHER ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Incumbent must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time and perform other duties as assigned.
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REQUIRED EDUCATION, DEGREES, CERTIFICATES, AND/OR LICENSE:
Incumbent must have a high-school diploma, and must be able to obtain Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TECLEOSE) certification for police dispatchers. National Crime Information System and Texas Crime Information System certification. Any certifications required to perform police radio or telecommunications duties required by any governmental agency having duties to regulate the activity.
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EXPERIENCE, TRAINING, KNOWLEDGE, AND SKILLS:
Incumbent should know or be able to learn the names and location of the streets and principal buildings in the City; receive and route messages to appropriate personnel for action. Read and interpret policies and procedures governing radio operations. Act calmly and accurately in an emergency. Speak clearly and concisely with a well-modulated voice under emergency conditions. Keep records and executes miscellaneous routine clerical work. Establish and maintain effective working relationship with other employees and the public.
Anyone qualified and desiring to apply for this position should contact Workforce Solutions, 1315 W. Wilson Street in Borger by 5:00 p.m., on Friday, July 08, 2011. (806) 274-7171
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Perryton PD is Hiring !
If you're looking for a great place to work, Perryton PD has an opening! They offer great pay, 12 hours shifts (4 on / 4 off), a retirement plan, and the City pays 100% of employee's insurance coverage.
If you would like more information please contact the Perryton Police Department.
We will update with more information as soon as we have it available.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
From Pam : It's Newsletter Time !
Hi Y'ALL!
Well it is Newsletter Time and I am looking for some stuff to put in it!
This newsletter is for YOU and about YOU - so I am asking YOU for some help.
Please send some pictures of anything about your job! - It would be awesome if you
creeped around the office and take some pics of your coworkers!!! LOL
Also, how about any interesting 9-1-1 calls?
In a more serious note, If you would like to say something about Carolyn Sabbee for the
newsletter, we are going to have a page of memories for her.
One more thing, if you have a job opening in your comm center and would like for us to post it
on the blog or in the newsletter, please send us the information.
Don't wait too long to respond as we are working on it this week!
Thanks!
Pamela Frisk
Social media continues to be a valuable asset for public safety agencies.
Central Jersey police using social media to keep public informed
Departmental Facebook, Twitter use part of growing national trend
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Piscataway, 6/27/2011. -- Dispatcher Jillian Sofield and Lieutenant Edgar Velasquez work together to post a traffic advisory for July 4th to subscribers of the Nixle web service from the dispatch station at Piscataway Police Headquarters on Monday, June 27, 2011. AUGUSTO F. MENEZES/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER. METRO. BRI 0628 Social Media. B69114653Z.1 / A.F. MENEZES/MyCentralJersey
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Piscataway, 6/27/2011. -- Dispatcher Jillian Sofield and Lieutenant Edgar Velasquez work together to post a traffic advisory for July 4th to subscribers of the Nixle web service from the dispatch station at Piscataway Police Headquarters on Monday, June 27, 2011. AUGUSTO F. MENEZES/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER. METRO. BRI 0628 Social Media. B69114653Z.1 / A.F. MENEZES/MyCentralJersey
Piscataway, 6/27/2011. -- Dispatcher Jillian Sofield and Lieutenant Edgar Velasquez work together to compose and post a traffic advisory for July 4th to subscribers of the Nixle web service from the dispatch station at Piscataway Police Headquarters on Monday, June 27, 2011. AUGUSTO F. MENEZES/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER. METRO. BRI 0628 Social Media. B69114653Z.1 / A.F. MENEZES/MyCentralJersey
On the Web
For more information about the International Association of Chiefs of Police Center for Social Media, or to use a searchable database to find out what New Jersey police departments are making use of social media, go online to www.iacpsocialmedia.org. To find out more about Nixle, or to check what local police departments are using it, go to www.Nixle.com.
CENTRAL JERSEY — Mike Parker has a message for law enforcement organizations that have gotten into the habit of posting news releases and other public information to their department websites.
“If you’re doing that, you’re doing great — for 10 years ago,” Parker said.
A growing number of Central Jersey police departments and prosecutor’s offices are starting to use social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and other websites to accelerate dissemination of public information to residents, but they still remain exceptions to the rule. That’s why Parker, a captain with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and an internationally renowned expert in the field of public information in law enforcement, is joining a growing chorus of voices recommending that more agencies give the concept some serious consideration.
“This is the way our society is now, especially with our younger generation,” Hillsborough Police Chief Paul Kaminsky said in agreement. “They want immediate notification.”
Hillsborough’s police department in 2009 registered with Nixle, a subscription-based information service that allows law enforcement and other government agencies to connect with residents in real time via text messages, emails and other forms of online correspondence. About two dozen police departments in Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon and Union counties have Nixle accounts, although only slightly more than half of them post regular updates.
Hillsborough went a step further and created a Twitter feed that automatically tweets Nixle updates as they are issued, Kaminsky said. The setup allows any of the township’s nearly 40,000 residents spread across 55 square miles to receive instant alerts about traffic conditions, road closures, suspicious vehicles and more — information that can get from an officer’s desktop computer straight to a resident’s smartphone in a matter of seconds.
“We normally posted these things on local television, which was great if you were home … and we also used 610 AM local radio through the (township) Office of Emergency Management,” Kaminsky said. “But this is just a way to get the information out quick in the most convenient ways possible.”
The police department issues about 10 to 15 alerts per month, and the free service has been received well by officers and residents alike, Kaminsky said.
“We strongly recommend it (to other police departments),” he said. “It’s definitely worthwhile.”
Nixle subscribers in Piscataway had an inside track to avoiding traffic Friday morning, when a notification advised that a portion of Centennial Avenue was experiencing alternating lane closures for a milling and paving project.
Piscataway Police Lt. Edgar Velasquez said the department signed up for the service a little more than six months ago and also has been pleased with the results. Township police dispatchers handle Nixle updates, Velasquez said, meaning vital public information isn’t even slowed down by an intermediary en route to residents.
“They’re the ones getting the first calls,” Velasquez said of the dispatchers. “Plus they work with computers all day long, so it seemed like a natural progression.”
Praise for the service and other sources of social media as conduits for public information was echoed by every keynote speaker at a recent roundtable conference held at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. Police chiefs, prosecutor’s office representatives and members of the media from across Central and North Jersey attended the event, where Parker and others outlined examples from across the country.
Speakers described how in Baltimore, Twitter has replaced telephone hotlines as the principal link between police and reporters; within 20 minutes of just about every major crime event, 140 characters or less of details are sent out to media subscribers. The Philadelphia Police Department has become a national phenomenon on Facebook, amassing more than 35,000 “likes,” others noted, while Toronto’s police department has more than 13,000 Twitter followers (a quirky sergeant in the department, Tim Burrows, has nearly as many in his own right, occasionally tweeting as frequently as 10 times an hour).
Using social media eases burdens on dispatchers, improves media relations, aids disaster management and generates tips for time-sensitive investigations, speakers noted. And it doesn’t hurt that Facebook and Twitter are both free services with combined user totals approaching 1 billion around the world.
“Social media is not a fad,” said Nancy Kolb, a senior program manager for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. “And it will continue to evolve.”
According to estimates developed by the association, or IACP — which through its Center for Social Media helps individual police departments integrate online tools into agency operations — as of 2010 at least 1,300 U.S. police agencies used Facebook while more than 600 were on Twitter. One of the first state law-enforcement organizations to use Twitter was the New Jersey State Police, which today has more than 6,500 followers.
“At first I did it just for the media with a closed account … but I just got so tired of refusing people who requested it and weren’t part of the media that I just said, ‘You know what? It’s public information anyhow,’ ” said Sgt. Stephen Jones, the acting director of communication for the State Police.
The service has been helpful in spreading the word about events ranging from tornado warnings to bank robbery investigations, Jones said.
“There’s obviously a public safety benefit to asking for public input, whether it’s an Amber Alert type of thing … or something else,” Jones said. “It may even be something like we’re looking for who’s got this car involved in a hit-and-run.”
“Our goal is to get a lot more aggressive with this, too,” Jones added. “I wouldn’t say we’re ahead of the curve by any means. There’s still a lot of room for improvement.”
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