MCP Insights
Takeaways from the CES Show and Why it Matters for Public Safety Communications
The Consumer Technology Association’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) wrapped up earlier this ...
January 19, 2018
Shooting Death Underscores Urgent Need for Action on Swatting Incidents
Swatting, the practice of falsely reporting an emergency to elicit a response from a police department’s ...
January 8, 2018
A Look Back at 2017's Most Read Stories on MCP Insights
This past year, we launched an online repository of articles called MCP Insights. Our vision was to create a ...
December 21, 2017
Social Media and Emergency Response: The Challenge with Leveraging Social Media Data
In a previous post, we examined how social media had a profound effect on emergency response in the aftermath ...
December 6, 2017
Social Media and Emergency Management: A Powerful Combination
A network television show that debuted recently is centered on a crowd-sourcing platform that is used to ...
December 1, 2017
Data and How It Will Change the Public Safety Communications Landscape [WEBINAR]
Ready or not, data is taking over the world. So what does that mean for emergency communications? The way in ...
November 17, 2017
In-Building Public Safety Radio Coverage: Tips for Overcoming Limitations and Issues
When it comes to emergency response, having reliable public safety radio coverage is imperative to keeping ...
November 9, 2017
PEMA Builds New High-Tech EOC Under Budget with MCP’s Help
The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA), a statewide agency tasked with coordinating prevention, ...
November 3, 2017
When It Comes To FirstNet and NG911 Convergence is the Key To Success
“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.” – Steve Jobs Our nation’s 911 ...
October 25, 2017
Public safety needs visibility into the NPSBN’s design
For a while now, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) has been describing the nationwide public ...
September 27, 2017