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 ...

Two law enforcement government bodies have assembled a committee to address the problem of making computer-aided dispatch systems interoperable. Two law enforcement government bodies have assembled a ...

CABELL COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A new computer-aided Dispatch system, or CAD, is replacing one that’s been around for about 20 years. Cabell County EMS Director Gordon Merry said the CAD system will ...

The FDNY’s new $22 million state-of-the art computer-aided dispatch system isn’t any better than an antiquated one used by EMS — and has crashed as many times as the older system in the six months ...

(TNS) - After more than two-and-a-half years of planning, the Owensboro-Daviess County, Ky., 911 dispatch center will switch to a modern computer-aided dispatch and records management system this week ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (WTVG) - A new computer-aided dispatch system will be used soon in Wood County and officials say it will enable faster response times for first responders. “Computer-aided dispatch ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The archaic computer dispatch system for the nation's largest sheriff's department remained out of commission on Thursday after crashing on New Year's Eve, forcing deputies to ...

A four-plus hour glitch in the FDNY Emergency Medical Services’ computerized dispatch system sent multiple ambulances to the same address while spawning delays of up to an hour in answering 911 calls, ...