Public Safety
Public Safety is a top priority for local and state government agencies, encompassing the protection of citizens through law enforcement, emergency response, and crime prevention strategies. Effective public safety measures are essential for maintaining order and ensuring the well-being of communities. This directory offers articles on public safety and related topics like Emergency Management, which focuses on preparing for and responding to natural disasters, public health crises, and other emergencies that impact community safety.
Mold, leaks and dripping sewage plague Bay City Department of Public Safety’s police and fire facilities
Specialized Assistance For Everyone will run for five years in a pilot program with the Novato Police Department
The Scranton Fire Department spent years researching drone types and speaking with other departments using drones before making the purchase
Mobile communications centers have and continue to evolve with technology and MCC design innovations.
Establishing large event security communications plans can serve your organization well in both planned and unplanned events.
Instead of working out of an SUV, the Salem Police Department has a state-of-the-art 40' mobile command center paid for with the city budget, grants and crowd funding raised by a police foundation.
Making a silent call to 911 can get callers the specific public safety services they need and can address dangerous situations or help emergency callers with disabilities.
A Lake County Judge has permanently blocked the village of Deerfield’s 2018 assault weapons ban.
FirstNet services, devices and training prepare first responders and emergency communications at the Citizen Potawatomi Tribe’s annual FireLake Fireflight Balloon Festival in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
This excerpt from a synthetic drug abuse guide for teachers and parents explains the challenges to governments in addressing the risks of commercial synthetic drugs.
Programs funded by the grant will use data to show successes and reveal evidence-based approaches that address different types of opioid abuse in youth.
A new primer is available that helps address Project 25 (P25) interfaces that enhance public safety radio interoperability. Also, DHS has extended its P25 ISSI and CSSI conformance requirements comment period.
The first dispatcher reclassification request was rejected in 2016 by the federal government due to a lack of understanding about the training and administration requirements of their first responder duties.
A 911 dispatcher family survey will incorporate the point of view of family and close friends into research on the critical stress experienced by dispatchers in public safety and emergency communications
When a 911 dispatcher is alerted to a cardiac arrest victim, in addition to sending an ambulance, they will also provide instructions for using a defibrillator delivered by a drone to allow emergency action to be taken faster than paramedics can arrive.
The 911 SAVES Act would update OMB’s 911 dispatcher classification to reflect the role in directing emergency response and providing lifesaving emergency medical instruction, increasing training, funding and occupation protection.
Carbyne and RapidSOS are partnering to deliver enhanced caller location data to enhance emergency response.
DHS S&T is designing wearables to be interoperable between different agencies, compatible with IT infrastructure and used on the FirstNet network.
Denver is expanding parking revenue enforcement with the PRRS Screamer PE1 program.
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