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1. Yes. Staffing is hard because training is hard and expensive. In DC, we opened up the training nodes and made them live. Very high compliments to the DC staff from our people on the ground there. 2. Yes. Backup centers where afforded are excellent. However, the non-interoperability of say heterogeneous systems disables many capabilities. You are right about this forum. It is not necessary, however, to have direct authority over other agency assets. Another issue is that some of the databases to which users of the next level of these systems need access to are not online or accessible. There are some very powerful arguments for the use of XML in this industry, if not, always for the web. Yet, web services can be a major enabler the immediate next generation given the emerging requirements. Those with backgrounds such as yours, Ann, should see some of the potentials. len -----Original Message----- From: Ann Navarro [mailto:ann@w...] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 5:08 PM To: Bullard, Claude L (Len); xml-dev@l... Subject: RE: Any way to volunteer XML development skills to hel p with the recent events??? At 02:06 PM 9/21/2001 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >Go to the next meeting of your city council and ask the following >questions: > >1. Is the city or county public safety system physically protected? Add: Do they have sufficient staffing on a day to day basis, as well as any depth of reserves (that is trained staff) for call center/dispatch services that can withstand a multi-day jurisdiction-wide (or larger) event? The answer will inevitably be no -- you'd be amazed at how few people are on duty at any given time in communications centers, and "police officers/firefighters/EMTS" will provide backup staffing" is not an acceptable answer, they aren't trained for dispatch/control center duty any more than dispatchers are trained in riot and arrest procedures. >2. Are your dispatch and emergency service systems open to communication >across political/service boundaries (can your neighboring county's system >dispatch or post events to yours?) While this isn't the appropriate forum to discuss specific control center policies, direct inter-system access isn't necessarily a good idea. However, a disaster plan that involves transfer of communications/control functions to another jurisdiction (with backup-backup jurisdiction plans available) is essential. Ann -- been there done that, Loma Prieta Earthquake, 1989 (San Jose, PD), Monterey County, CA Floods, January and March, 1995 (Monterey County Sheriff's Office) Ann Navarro, WebGeek Inc. http://www.webgeek.com/ What's on my mind? http://www.snorf.net/blog/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hooya waling waling wi tiyil!
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