Intergraph Public Safety selected by Westmoreland County to manage emergencies

Intergraph Public Safety selected by Westmoreland County to manage emergencies

Huntsville, Ala., April 20, Intergraph Public Safety (IPS) has been selected by Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to provide a multi-agency computer aided dispatch (CAD) system for law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical services (EMS). The contract award is valued at $1.7 million.

Covering more than 1,068 square miles and serving approximately 375,000 people, Westmoreland County receives more than 275,000 calls for service a year. The new CAD system will support 117 fire departments, 36 law enforcement agencies, 30 EMS units, emergency management for 65 municipalities, HAZMAT response, county detective, county coroner, children's bureau, county park police, and county sheriff.

Intergraph Public Safety develops, markets, and implements systems for public safety agencies around the world. Intergraph Public Safety's CAD system fully integrates interactive, intelligent mapping with dispatching, records management, and state-of-the-art communications capabilities. The system is composed of high-performance graphics workstations and software designed specifically to support command and control operations. Records management is enhanced by the use of a database that includes geographic basemap information as well as address, incident history, and traffic pattern data. Available on the Microsoft Windows NT operating system, the CAD system runs on powerful Intel processor-based personal computers and high-performance, symmetrical multiprocessors for high-volume transaction processing.

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