SAAS Responding Other Services..

[RescueHazmat]

Fair call though.. - Could you imagine what would happen if MFS took 1200 calls in a day..


*shudders*

[boredmatrix]

Boredy....defending SAAS Comms?....wow....must print that and send it through...lol

You've chaaaaanged 

**actively cutting off my little finger as I type this**

yes..it's strange!

however...the knucklheads they've got employed (most of them...not all - I know a small number personally and those ones do a good job.....) wouldn't have a clue as to how their role relates to real time (ie: what happens on the road.) 

while you can can the individuals for it, the management up there need a rocket under them with a stark reminder that response times, while they are the only current measure of performance, are not true indicators of patient care outcomes.

sadly...methinks this will only happen via a medium which is commonly referred to as the CORONERS COURT.

[mattb]

This was on the ABC today, it sounds like the stuff that has been discussed on here for the last few years but with SAPOL Comm's rather than SAAS.

New triple-0 system a danger: CFS officer

A Country Fire Service (CFS) group officer says a centralisation of the south-east's police communications to Adelaide has shown itself to be severely flawed.

Since Sunday, all emergency triple-0 calls in the south-east service area of South Australia have been diverted to a call centre in Adelaide and relevant emergency service crews are then contacted.

Michael Kemp from the CFS says an incident on Tuesday morning made clear how dangerous the new system is.

He says ambulance officers were notified of a crash near Beachport about 30 minutes before the call centre alerted fire crews to the potentially hazardous situation.

Mr Kemp says it was a gross oversight.

"It could actually prove to be fatal for those people actually working on it," he said.

"We have the expertise to be able to protect those people.

"In our eyes it's totally unacceptable, people's lives are being put at risk by the fire service not being told about it."

Mr Kemp says the government policy of centralising personnel and services in Adelaide must be reviewed.

[Alan (Big Al)]

pfft happens all the time, our brigade has even spoken to the higher ups when they have visited and got the usual "oh well" shrug.

[Darren]

Sounds like a broken record, I guess at least it takes the heat off Adelaide Fire for a day or 2. Not sure how long sapol had it?

[Alan (Big Al)]

Wonder if he did his research and worked out whether SAAS or SAPOL were the initial call takers.
Wouldn't want anyone running off half cocked to the media to push another agenda