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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...