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How to Keep GIS Institutional Knowledge From Walking Out the Door

Every once in a while, the geographic information system (GIS) professional working for one of our clients ...
May 19, 2020

Podcast Series Tackles COVID-19-Generated Telecommunicator Stress

Without question, the role of telecommunicator in an emergency communications center (ECC) is one of the most ...
May 12, 2020

Why COOP/DR Plans Need to Consider GIS Data Maintenance

A couple of weeks ago, MCP’s Richard Gaston posted about why it is critically important for every ...
April 17, 2020

Assessing Progress Towards Next Generation 911 is No Easy Task

In 2015, while beginning work on the Next Generation 911 (NG911) Nationwide Cost Study for the National 911 ...
April 10, 2020

Pandemic Underscores Importance of Public Safety Continuity-Of-Operations and Disaster-Recovery Plans

COVID-19, aka the coronavirus, pandemic is grabbing a lot of attention right now, partly because we don’t see ...
March 31, 2020

Women in Public Safety Communications Have Come a Long Way

In this installment in our Women in Public Safety series in honor of Women's History Month celebrated in ...
March 27, 2020

Eight Tips for Protecting Public Safety Organizations Against Phishing

In this recent post on cybersecurity training, we explained why it is one of the most crucial tactics ...
March 6, 2020

Strategic Planning for Public Safety

The expectations placed on public safety agencies increase every day—from doing more with smaller budgets and ...
February 25, 2020

Security Training: A Key Element of a Strong Cyberrisk Prevention Program

According to a recent report by Crowdstrike, cybersecurity threats to state and local governments increased ...
February 3, 2020

URL Integration Acquisition Bolsters MCP’s Data-Integration Capabilities

When we launched MCP a little more than a decade ago, we established some pretty aggressive growth goals, ...
January 16, 2020

Webinar Next Week to Explore Public Safety Broadband and NG911 Integration in ECCs

For decades, public safety has suffered from a siloed approach to implementing communications networks, one ...
October 25, 2019

Client Success Story: Memphis Police and 911 Communications Enjoy a Remarkable Rebirth

Challenge With the third-highest homicide rate amongst the 50 largest cities, it’s easy to see that the ...
October 21, 2019