ECN Encourages Participation in SAFECOM Nationwide Survey

The Department of Public Safety Emergency Communication Networks division encourages Minnesota’s public safety community to complete the SAFECOM Nationwide Survey. 

The SAFECOM Nationwide Survey (SNS) is a nationwide effort to obtain critical information  that will ultimately drive our nation’s emergency communication policies, programs and funding. The SNS is directed at emergency response organizations with a public safety-related mission in law enforcement, fire and rescue, emergency medical services, and public safety answering points and communications centers.

A link to the SNS can be found on the SAFECOM website. The survey will be available into February 2018 to ensure agencies have enough time to participate.

About SAFECOM

SAFECOM is managed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Emergency Communications (OEC). Through these partnerships, SAFECOM has created key documents such as the Interoperability Continuum, the Statement of Requirements (SoR) for baseline communications and interoperability standards, the Statewide Communication Interoperability Plan (SCIP) Methodology, and the National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) to assist emergency responders nationwide with improving communications and interoperability.

Through collaboration with emergency responders and elected officials across all levels of government, SAFECOM works to improve emergency response providers’ inter-jurisdictional and interdisciplinary emergency communications interoperability across local, regional, tribal, State, territorial, international borders, and with Federal government entities. SAFECOM works with existing Federal communications programs and key emergency response stakeholders to address the need to develop better technologies and processes for the coordination of existing communications systems and future networks.