[Scan-DC] Fw: Prince George’s County’s 9-1-1 Center Launches the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP)
Doug Kitchener
oldsdoug at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 24 23:53:49 EDT 2018
I can barely understand it! But 2 points come to mind immediately:
Sounds like something else to go wrong.
If mungfunkery county even thinks of trying it, it will be an unmitigated disaster of epic proportion, with incessant wrangling, massive cost over-runs, a delay of somewhere from 3 to 8 years, if it ever does go on line it wont work right, and no one will be held accountable.
Mark my words - you read it here first.
2400 hours, KGC-334
Blurp!
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On Sat, 3/24/18, Alan Henney <alan at henney.com> wrote:
Subject: [Scan-DC] Fw: Prince George’s County’s 9-1-1 Center Launches the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP)
To: "Scan DC" <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Saturday, March 24, 2018, 1:58 AM
Prince George’s County’s 9-1-1 Center
Launches the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP)
Like this is some sort of
breakthrough! Wake me up when they finally get a
CAD2CAD interface implemented.
If we ran 9-1-1 like Jeff Bezos ran
Amazon, this would have been fixed years ago.
From: Prince George’s County MD
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 12:19 PM
To: alan at henney.com
Subject: Prince George’s County’s
9-1-1 Center Launches the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol
(ASAP)
Press Release
For immediate
release:
March 23, 2018
For more
information, contact:
Scott L. Peterson
Deputy Manager of
Communications/Press Secretary
Office of Prince
George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III
240-619-9400
Prince George’s
County’s 9-1-1 Center Launches the Automated Secure Alarm
Protocol (ASAP)
Prince George’s
County is 1st in State of Maryland utilizing this new
life-saving technology
Upper Marlboro, MD
– This week, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L.
Baker III was notified that Prince George’s County became
the FIRST Maryland Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) to
launch and utilize the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol
(ASAP) system. The ASAP Program is a new service that has
been in design and testing phases for over a year. The
ASAP service provides a direct alarm company information
exchange between the County’s Motorola Premier One Computer
Aided Dispatch (CAD) system and the alarm system monitoring
company. This direct connection will result in
immediate receipt of data from the alarm monitoring center;
thereby, reducing processing time for alarm activations.
“I am proud that
Prince George’s County will be the first jurisdiction in
Maryland with this critical lifesaving technology,” said
Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III.
“The Automated Secure Alarm Protocol system will also
reduce alarm activation related telephone calls into and out
of the 9-1-1 center by nearly 250,000 to 275,000 per
year. This data exchange process will allow the highly
trained 9-1-1 call takers to concentrate on processing
incoming emergency 9-1-1 calls in a more efficient and
effective manner. This will help save lives, protect
property and reduce emergency incident response times. Our
Public Safety Communications operation is one of the most
advanced in the nation and our investments in these
technologies allow us to help protect and save the lives of
our residents.”
County Executive
Baker has made Public Safety for Prince George’s County one
of the top priorities of his Administration. County
Executive Baker hopes that this technology will lead the way
for other PSAP units within the State of Maryland to achieve
the high standard expected of the County’s 9-1-1
center operations.
ASAP, launched in
2011 as a public-private partnership, is designed to
increase the accuracy and efficiency of calls for service
from alarm companies to PSAPs. The ASAP service utilizes
ANSI standard protocols developed cooperatively by the
Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO)
and The Monitoring Association (TMA). Vector Security was
the first alarm company to go live with Prince George’s
County.
“Prince George’s
County is very appreciative of Vector Security’s support
and work in helping us bring this new technology to our
citizens,” said Charlynn Flaherty, Director, for the Prince
George’s County’s Emergency Communications Center. “I
want to thank County Executive Baker for his leadership,
dedication and investment in technology for the County’s
Emergency Communications Center and the operations that
support our heroic first responders.”
Additional alarm
companies quickly followed Vector Security. Rapid
Response also went live with Prince George’s County in the
afternoon of March 21, 2018. Protection One,
Monitronics and Guardian Protection, are a few of the
progressive, service oriented alarm companies scheduled to
go live in the upcoming days. We expect that to be
followed by ADT on or about May 8, 2018 as well as other
alarm companies with Prince George’s County customers.
For more
information regarding the ASAP to PSAP services, please
contact Prince George’s County’s 9-1-1 Center Director,
Charlynn Flaherty, on 301-352-1485 or CFFlaherty at co.pg.md.us.
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