British APCO assists international interoperabilty
May 5th, 2012
FREESIC aims to enhance interoperability, in routine and major event operations, between civil protection agencies and emergency services, both from a technical and non-technical perspective. The project commenced in February this year and is scheduled to run for 30 months. British APCO is one of nine organisations involved in this initiative; the other partners being: [...]
Project Sericom Success – British APCO are Partners
May 5th, 2012
Project Secricom commenced 44 months ago in September 2008 and was focused on enhancing emergency services interoperability through improved communication systems resilience and reliability that is seamless to end-users. This involved researching multiple bearer options whilst also maintaining required security needs. A key aspect of the project was to examine cross state border communication needs at [...]
Annual APCO Global Congress returns to Dubai -
February 20th, 2012
International public safety peers will soon have the opportunity share knowledge and expertise at the 2nd annual APCO Global Congress in Dubai, United Emirates, 1-3 May 2012.
• Registration opens for the IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC) to be held June 10 – 15 at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa, Canada – Themed “Connect – Communicate – Collaborate,” IEEE ICC 2012 is expected to host more than 2,000 industry professionals, scientists, academics and government officials attending nearly 1,500 presentations highlighting the [...]
Fylde Coast Medical Service (FCMS) is one of the first out-of-hours primary care providers in England to pilot the Department of Health’s new initiative, NHS 111
Wireless magazine has teamed up with Motorola Solutions, the TETRA + Critical Communications Association (TCCA) and British APCO to host a round-table discussion to debate the possible future strategies for implementing broadband services. This report outlines the outcome of the first of three scheduled meetings held at the end of 2011. High quality mobile broadband data [...]
Membership of British APCO is open to all persons in the United Kingdom, the Channel Isles, Isle of Man and Ireland who are associated with the provision, maintenance, and use (managers, engineers, programmers, communications operators, end users, suppliers consultants) of civil contingencies communications and information systems.