Thank you for taking the time to view
the video concerning the deployment of
the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband
Network and what it means to Michigan's
first responders.
In 2012, United States
Congress passed the Middle-Class Tax
Relief and Job Creation Act.
That act
created the First Responders Network
Authority also known as FirstNet.
The Act
gave FirstNet the blueprint for its
mission to build, operate and maintain
the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband
Network.
To provide a completely
interoperable nationwide LTE wireless
broadband network dedicated to support
public safety operations.
Once completed
first responders will have prioritized
access to mission-critical data such as
high-definition video, resource location,
records management systems and much much
more.
While this network will provide a
revolutionary communications tool for
Public Safety it is important to note it
will not provide mission-critical voice
to public safety standards for the
foreseeable future.
As vice-chair of the
Michigan Public Safety Communications
Interoperability Board also known as the
MPSCIB, our focus has been to develop
a vision for the future and on the
strategic opportunities for the state
and this is one that we've been involved
with since the ground floor.
Over the
last four years the state has conducted
extensive data collection and outreach
efforts working with a diverse group of
stakeholders representing all Public
Safety and disciplines at all levels of
government
in order to define Michigan's unique
requirements for this network.
As many first responders know much of the
State
of Michigan is rural in nature and
therefore presents many communication
challenges.
The Nationwide Public Safety
Broadband Network will provide the
capabilities to vastly improve our
response and management of incidents
through access to mission-critical data.
When operational this network will
provide access to live video from
in vehicle or body worn cameras, highway
aircraft, robotics, and other sources.
As
well as the ability to access databases
from the fields for items such as
fingerprint identification and
facial recognition and much much more.
It
is critical the network be built to
accommodate Michigan's unique
geographical requirements as well as
continually increasing the need for
capacity.
I have found the challenge of
leverage new mobile technology while
maintaining traditional land mobile
radio interoperability has become
possible with FirstNet.
I represent the
Major County Sheriff's Association on
the Public Safety Advisory Committee and
serve as its Vice-Chair representing law
enforcement.
The Public Safety Advisory
Committee is comprised of Public Safety
Association members from across the
United States.
Our purpose is to advise
FirstNet in matters involving shared
governmental responsibilities with the
building, deployment, operation, and
maintenance of the Nationwide Public
Safety Broadband Network.
FirstNet and
AT&T have begun developing state plans
where this public-private partnership
will leverage AT&T's national footprint
and commercial resources, giving Public
Safety priority access to the network as
well as improving coverage within dense
urban areas and during large events.
Communications in a rural environment
presents many challenges including areas
without infrastructure to provide
coverage.
One of our most common
incidents involve responding to vehicle
crashes which can occur at any time in
any place.
Communicating with medical
facilities to ensure proper treatment of
injured persons is critical to our
life-saving mission.
Additionally, access to other information
such as hazardous materials data can
also be vital at times.
The Nationwide
Public Safety Broadband Network, if built
and deployed to ensure rural coverage
would provide a platform for access to
mission-critical data which will result
in making Public Safety first responders
much more efficient at their missions.
Today EMS in the State of Michigan has a
number of challenges when it comes to
communications and one of them is
insufficient bandwidth to operate on
a day to day basis.
Looking forward, EMS
is going to continue to grow and develop
into different areas of service
delivery that includes systems like a
video telemedicine where we
in conference with physicians at a
hospital especially in the rural
environments where a number of services
aren't necessarily available.
Communications and sharing of
information is critical to the provision
of emergency services and must be quick
concise and reliable everywhere all the
time.
The establishment of a nationwide
data network that meets the reliability
and capacity required Public Safety is
the key to ensuring that the right
information is accessible at the right
emergency services personnel and the
right time.
While data is involved in
virtually all aspects of our operations
specifically these advantages would be
seen the 911 call processing from
dispatch centers to the mobile CAD
environment, the capability of automatic
vehicle location to ensure the closest
appropriate resource is sent to the
emergency, and making incident specific
data such as building information, call
history, orthographic maps, routing
information, and other critical data to
the responders in the field in a fast
consistent reliable fashion.
This is a
great opportunity to make a substantial
improvement in the capabilities of all
emergency services.
Communications for emergency responders is
always critical. The Nationwide Public Safety Broadband
Network promises to provide an
interoperable communications platform to
greatly improve our ability to share
information with our own firefighters as
well as other first responder agencies.
Firefighting in an urban environment
poses many challenges and risks. We have
the risk of incurring fires and large
commercial structures, industrial plants
as well as residential structures.
This
new network would give us the ability to
equip our firefighters with devices over
which we can monitor their physical
location.
We would also be able to access
building blueprints, information
concerning potential hazards associated
with automobiles, and information
concerning hazardous materials we come
in contact with and much much more.
Another key component of a community
paramedic program is accessing the
patient's health chart and that provides
the paramedic the ability to make the
best decision in a patient's home to
hopefully provide care in the home
and prevent the need to transport to the
emergency department.
I think that the FirstNet network will provide
a
tremendous asset to Public Safety units
in Michigan.
Specifically, as I work in a
very urban area, it's important that we
get resources capable of allowing
multiple jurisdictions, multiple
disciplines to work together in a
very effective well-managed way and that
requires data capability within our community.
That data
capability has to have the ability to
stream live video or audio to
communicate on multiple levels with all
first responders.
I think back on several
incidents we've had to deal with where
agencies have to work together and it's
important that they have a good vision
of what's going on.
We've had large-scale
incidents where many agencies have to
respond to the same accident.
Hundreds of
cars involved.
These are all
circumstances where that video would be
very important.
I'm looking forward to
working with my fellow agencies
throughout Michigan to coordinate a
network that meets all of our needs now
and into the future.
The additional benefit of the public safety
broadband
network will be to allow for priority and
preemption in those MCI events.
Especially as you bring multiple
agencies in from different service areas.
The current systems become very busy
during those kind of events and having the
priority preemption will allow EMS
agencies and other first responders to
provide seamless service and
communications across the MCI.
Major incidents such as severe weather,
flooding, terrorism, utility failure, and
other natural or human-made incidents
require the coordination of multiple
agencies across all disciplines to
ensure the efficient effective and
successful response and recovery.
Communications is critical to these
incidents and can be very challenging
especially in rural areas. The ability to
communicate across agencies and
disciplines can be very challenging in any
environment.
The Nationwide Public Safety
Broadband Network will be designed to be
interoperable between responding
agencies and disciplines with varying missions.
If not properly managed
emergency incidents will result in
unnecessary property loss, injuries, or
even loss of life.
Communication is
critical to emergency management efforts.
This is true in both urban and rural
environments.
As these types of incidents
occur routinely in both.
The Nationwide
Public Safety Broadband Network will
provide emergency responders and
managers with a significant tool by
which we will be able to access
mission-critical data through a
dedicated bandwidth as never seen before.
It is vital that the network be made
available to responders across the
entire state.
Thank you for the opportunity to be here.
As we look at both peninsulas of our
State, the unique needs for Public Safety
are different from rural areas as they
are for urban.
They're different from
fire service as they are from law
enforcement.
From EMS to transportation.
Everyone has a slightly different
approach to what their needs are, but as
we look at this network we need to
ensure the public safety not only has
priority on this network but they will
also have preemption.
Those two
capabilities of priority and preemption
will ensure that Public Safety, when the
need arises they will always have access
to this network for the needs that
responding to citizens.
Whether they be
in the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula or
the southern border of our state.
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