As the largest and most trusted source of mission critical communications in North America, Cassidian Communications is leading the way in standards-based 9-1-1 call center applications, notification solutions and services and P25 land mobile radio networks... Read More >

Sand Storm Inundates Coastal Homes in Oregon

A fierce windstorm, with winds of 50 MPH, blew beach sand all over more than a dozen homes built on a sand spit on the coastal town of Waldport, Oregon last January 17th.  The homes are frequently visited by wind storms that drive the sand over and around the homes, but nothing of this level had ever occurred before. Read More >

Features

From a Text Message to a Life Saved

Think you're good at giving good driving directions, specifying street names, lane ends, and landmarks like the mountains east and west of the your community? The same ease probably wouldn't apply in places around Saskatoon, Canada... Just ask Ron Boechler, the police chief for Corman Park, a Rural Municipality (RM) located around Saskatoon. He'd have been lost without the guidance of MD Ambulance Dispatcher Kim Wruck. Without their teamwork, a young woman would not likely have survived the... Read More >

SkyMail for the Public Safety Community

Most people would agree that communications within a Police Department is critical to the daily and safe operation of any community. An unfortunate trend has caught on, though, perhaps in response to tight municipal budgets and officer layoffs... Recognizing that a more effective and safe solution would significantly increase the speed and accuracy of communications from the field, PDV took the lead by creating an application called SkyMail, which allows police officers to quickly and... Read More >

Archived From Our Magazine Back Issues

Operation Serenade: Simi Valley PD and President Reagan's Funeral

As a dispatcher with the Simi Valley (CA) Police Department since 1977, promoted to the position of Communications Manager in 1990, I have been involved with many citywide incidents from earthquakes, to fires, to floods, to the opening of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library with five living Presidents attending. But nothing has come close to being involved in managing public safety during the internment of Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States. Read More >

New Products

Zetron's Dispatch System Supports Remote Dispatch

Zetron has launched Acom EVO, the new release of its Advanced Communication System. The new release retains the reliability, intuitive operation and flexible configuration for which Acom is known, but adds full IP-console capability that supports remote dispatch operations. It is also designed for use with emerging network technologies. Read More >

NextGen Microwave Wireless Connectivity

Today’s traffic-monitoring project or public safety agency demands higher data throughput and lower latency—at an affordable price. The LongHaul ST seriesis Carlson Wireless’s answer to these requirements, with both an indoor rackmount version as well as an outdoor integrated antenna.

The third series in the LongHaul product family, the ST provides even higher data throughput and greater network capabilities than its predecessors.  This performance data has already been proven during a recent independent field test where it outperformed all competitors. Read More >

Featured Columnists

Evaluations: Giving and Getting - A Waste of Time?

Can you describe a productive evaluation meeting?  We all can describe an unproductive but hopefully not typical evaluation session as a one way communications from the evaluator.  Read More >

Law Enforcement Perspective: Organized Crime

Organized crime is defined by modern law to mean the association of people in pursuit of criminal activity. The Chief Assistant District Attorney in New York County and head of the Rackets Bureau under legendary DA Frank S. Hogan, Alfred J. Scotti, considered organized crime a purely American brand of criminal activity. Read More >

Featured Video

Avalanche Rescue Exercise

Jackson Hole Avalanche Search and Rescue Team and its K-9 rescue dogs perform a "live" rescue to demonstrate avalanche rescue operations in action. Read More >

Editor's Desk

We hope you’ve found 9-1-1 Magazine’s new incarnation as emergency communications’ first Web Portal valuable and informative.  We’ve tried very hard to provide the same sense of articulate vision and presentation about public safety communications technology and operations that we did in nearly a quarter century of existence as a print publication... Read More >