Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The L.A. County Sheriff's computer dispatch system went down on New Year's Eve. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) A few hours ...

An outage in the city’s computer-aided emergency dispatch system snarled some communications between Baltimore police and fire officials last week, briefly causing disarray as officers repeatedly ...

The Cumberland County Department of Public Safety plans to pursue an almost $3.7 million capital project to upgrade its computer-aided dispatch system. “We are working with other regional counties to ...

The failure of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s computer-aided dispatch system in its vehicles had left deputies to resort to old methods as they responded to calls. By Kate Christobek After ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mark43, the leading mission-critical public safety software provider, today announced its partnership with the San Diego Sheriff’s Office to implement its industry-leading ...

Orlando officials hope the city's new $1.5 million, computer-aided dispatch system will improve response times for first responders. Orlando Fire Department dispatcher Pamala Monroe typed in the ...

A few hours before the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve, the computer dispatch system for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department crashed, rendering all patrol car computers nearly useless and ...