Lincoln’s New Emergency Communications Center is Running [Video]

LINCOLN–(KFOR June 27)–The new Lincoln Emergency Communications Center is now functioning at the Lincoln Police Department’s Northeast Team Station, which now consists of new technology and facility upgrades that will better serve people in Lincoln and Lancaster County’s growing communities.

“As part of our commitment to making Lincoln the safest and healthiest capital city in the country, my administration prioritized creating a new, state-of-the-art Emergency Communications Center,” Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird said at Thursday’s ribbon cutting. “The new Center provides our 911 dispatchers with more space and upgraded technology to enhance public safety and deliver swift, successful emergency response for our growing community.”

Emergency Communications Center director Jessica Loos says the original 911 call center at the Hall of Justice will be maintained as a backup to the new center.

“Should we have the …