[Scan-DC] Fw: Prince George’s County’s 9-1-1 Center Launches the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP)

Mon Mar 26 03:38:21 EDT 2018

It's being used in a few jurisdictions in Virginia. I believe the info is sent vias nlets into a cad feed. Richmond City is one of those jurisdictions.

Kenneth Fowler 
KD4IIW  

  On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Doug Kitchener via Scan-DC<scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:   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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