Recently, I got the chance to go and visit a police station (via leadership acadamy) and i got to see their 911 call center location (among other things).
Its really interesting to see these places to know how they operate. When we got there, We entered the board room where we learned about "cyber-bullying" things like "don't give out your personal info online" and "don't befriend strangers online" and whatnot. What i fonud silly is that the wifi password was on the board, and the presenter was logged into a RDP session (clearly showing IP of computer) so someone could connect to the wifi, and try to brute force their way into the computer.
We then went into the next part of the building where we got a tour. We got to see the "roll-call" room where officers are assigned stuff, theres computers in the back of the room, oddly the monitors are ASUS and the computers are DELL. one of the keyboards were from HP, oh and they still used DVD-R's.
Now we get to the fun stuff, the 911 call center. When i walked in there i was amazed, there were 2 desks, each with 6 monitors. they all were connected to 3 computers (3 computers at each desk) one was for radio, one was for 911, and one for dispatch. When you make a call to 911, they get your location via cell tower and the location info is showed on the phone. then on the 911 computer, they look up your location and get info (what info im not exactily sure) they also have a server rack with 2 access points in the corner of the room.
After that, we ate at a denny's (where im typing this up lol) anyway, thats all i have for now. bye.
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this blog was written on 11/15/24