In Summary:

• Manatee County's audiovisual system that served the county’s public safety complex was experiencing significant issues concerning reliability, lack of flexibility and difficult-to-view screens.
• The county partnered with Mission Critical Partners to provide subject-matter expertise and to guide and support the procurement process.
• The new system is extremely flexible, even allowing users working remotely to access it, which has been an important benefit during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background

Manatee County is located along Florida’s Gulf Coast. It is bordered by the cities of Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg to the north, Hardee and DeSoto counties to the east, the city of Sarasota to the south, and the Gulf of Mexico to the west. 

In this on-demand session, MCP and regional and state-level 911 directors to learn best practices for mitigating major 911 service interruptions, including:

• Continuity-of-operations planning (COOP) at state and regional levels
• The importance of a crisis preparedness plan
• The use of tabletop exercises to assess the organization’s preparedness

The new year—2021—has arrived with a “new normal,” but also with tremendous opportunities to improve emergency response. In this infographic, we highlight the trends that we predict will shape the new normal and public safety’s future.

The year 2020 was fraught with challenges and their effects will be long-lasting. Now, 2021 has arrived with a “new normal,” but also with tremendous opportunities to improve emergency response. In this on-demand webinar, we highlight the trends that we predict will shape the new normal and public safety’s future.

MCP's informational podcast series features the firm’s subject-matter experts and other industry leaders exploring a wide range of timely topics pertaining to mission-critical communications.

The sixth episode on the MCP Podcast Network is entitled “Data-Driven Criminal Justice.” This episode explores how data integration can improve the criminal justice process and result in better information and more effective and data-driven decision-making. Every criminal justice agency is dependent on its partners, whether it be courts, prosecutors, corrections, law enforcement, or any other partners for information to be there in a timely manner. Additional topics of discussion include: