Welcome to the North Central Regional E911 -
Mobridge Communications Center webpage. The Mobridge "Comm
Center" is a 24-hour communications center operated by the
Mobridge Police Department and is responsible for emergency
communications via phone, radio, and paging for law
enforcement, fire, rescue, EMS and emergency management
agencies. The Mobridge Comm Center is also the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) for
911 calls for nine counties in the northern central through
northwestern part of South Dakota, as well as Sioux County in
North Dakota. The Mobridge Comm Center is a Phase II
compliant PSAP. This means that in addition to receiving name,
number, and address information for landline phones used to
call 911, wireless digital phones with enhanced GPS used to
call 911 give the phone number and can be precisely tracked
using GPS coordinates
for location of the caller. Phase I tracking via tower
triangulation can be used to
locate the general location of wireless digital phones without
enhanced GPS, or analog wireless phones. Even though the
Mobridge Comm Center is Phase II compliant, Phase I & Phase II
ability depend on the compliance level of each wireless phone,
the wireless phone carrier, and the wireless carrier tower.
Please note that analog wireless phones are currently being
phased out by wireless carriers, meaning that callers will be
unable to use analog wireless
phones to make calls, including 911 calls.
The Mobridge Comm Center is a two-station E911 PSAP &
dispatch with a third station that can be used as a backup or
during large emergencies yielding high call volumes. Each
station utilizes Computer Aided Dispatching, which
automatically displays the location of incoming 911 calls on
computerized mapping software. This allows dispatchers to give
turn-by-turn directions to emergency responders in order to
ensure quick response the location of the caller.
The Mobridge Comm Center is currently staffed by seven
full-time certified communications officers and one part-time
E911 coordinator. |