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Smart911 now available in Pulaski County

A program the displays your personal information to emergency response dispatchers is now active in Pulaski County.

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Leatherneck - 10/2/2012 2:06 PM
1 Vote
I can see it now. You call smart 911 from your cell phone no where near the address of the personal information and they argue that you are not where you say you are. Seems to me the old 911 system tracks where you are calling from anyway. In order for a system to be smart it first, has to be programmed to be smart, and two it has to be used my someone that is smart enough to use it. So does this work for cell phones or is it for people that do actually still have a phone in their house? I wonder how much they paid for and are paying for this and who the sucker was that approved it for the county. Somebody is making off big with this, as in the seller and provider. Must have had some money in the budget they had to use or lose. Speaking of which. Since when do LRPD officers get to use a patrol car to shop at the Kroger in Benton on a weekend in civilian attire. Car number 963 with SWAT in two inch letters on the side. Bet he was using that department paid IPHONE for personal use too. Saline County deputies had better buy a car come 2014 because you won't be taking one home.

ArkansasYankee - 10/2/2012 12:08 PM
1 Vote
Smart911? Is there anything "smart" about the government? Give me a break! Reminds me of my 2nd heart attack. We called 911; they couldn't find us. When we put the trailer down here on land dad raised cattle on, the government entity that gives new addresses gave us a number that belonged two blocks up; for example the street starts out with 16 and goes down to 13. We lived at the end, hence we were in the 13 block, but the lady gave us a 15 number! I tried to explain to her she gave us a bad number; but she wasn't going to allow a white man to tell her she was wrong. I assume she was hired by affirmative action, or had connections; she certainly wasn't hired because of intelligence, that's for sure. 10 years later, the same gov entity called and told me I had a bad address and needed to change it to 13. No s***! I tried telling you people that when you gave us the address, but she wouldn't listen. Lot of headaches changing my address with everyone I did business with, banks, credit cards, newspaper, magazines, memberships and so on. All because of one stupid person in the county government. Smart? Not there when it comes to government.

wpsark - 10/2/2012 8:28 AM
2 Votes
had to call 911 once out by baseline & Arch b/c I almost ran over a drunk lady who fell out into the street...The dispatcher didn't even know what cops to call, ASP, city or county..I was on hold for a while and then I was being transferred here and there until I finally hung up the phone..The dispatcher had NO CLUE as to what he was doing and he sounded drunk himself..Nothing will help make 911 more efficient unless they get dispatchers with a little common sense..

pat72209 - 10/2/2012 7:52 AM
0 Votes
yeppers...you are probably right. However, since my house is difficult to find, I was going to fill it out...BUT after reading for ages and trying to find the "your phone bill will be charged" somewhere, I just gave it up. My house has a street address but i BEHIND the houses on the street...my driveway is between two chain link fences between two houses...I have watched the fire dept and the police pull into the driveway next to mine...I could die waiting for them. THEY SHOULD BE WILLING TO TAKE PERSONAL INFORMATION ATTACHED TO YOUR ADDRESS TO START WITH. oh well. They will ask "What color is your house?" after I have told them "You can't see my house from the street" several times. I love and respect the LRPD one way or the other.

yeppers - 10/1/2012 10:17 PM
3 Votes
Not a good idea at all. They will start selling your personail information to Insurance companies and to whom every offers the highest bid. Never give personail info never.
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