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Hartford emergency services and technology reports dispatch staffing gaps, CAD-to-CAD work with AMR and Oct. 18 radio cutover on schedule
Summary
Shante Washington, Q&A coordinator for Emergency Services and Technology, told the Quality of Life and Public Safety Committee on Sept. 11 that dispatch has 14 vacancies with a target Oct. 6 training start, CAD-to-CAD interoperability with AMR is underway at no cost to the city, and a radio infrastructure cutover is anticipated Oct. 18.
Shante Washington, Q&A coordinator for Hartford’s Emergency Services and Technology (ES&T), updated the City Council Quality of Life and Public Safety Committee on Sept. 11 about staffing, training and technology projects, including a radio infrastructure cutover scheduled for Oct. 18 and ongoing CAD-to-CAD work with AMR.
Washington said ES&T has eight authorized supervisors in public-safety communications and recently promoted Teresa Pallega to supervisor. She reported a recent hire — Charlene Anderson, an 18-plus-year veteran dispatcher from Plainfield — and said interviews for a deputy…
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