On Friday February 12, 2010, I had the pleasure of teaching PowerPhone’s Active Shooting Response (ASR) class at the Oxford, Massachusetts Police Department.  One of the students in the class asked why there have been so few females that have perpetrated these horrific crimes.  I advised her that in my experience and research, females have resorted to such violence,...

If you missed it in October, George Deuchar, PowerPhone’s Director of Training and star of TruTV’s “Missing Person’s Unit,” will be appearing in his feature film, “The Real Wolf-Man” airing on The History Channel, Saturday, February 13th at 10pm.  The rebroadcast coincides with the February 12th Universal Pictures release of...

This week’s feature was written by PowerPhone’s Director of Training, Captain George Deuchar. Captain Deuchar has taught law enforcement dispatch training courses since 1995, and served as PowerPhone’s Director of Training since 2002.  As leader of PowerPhone’s Instructor Corps, Captain Deuchar has trained approximately 30,000 911 dispatchers in the...

George Deuchar, PowerPhone’s Director of Training, recently wrote an article on the dispatcher’s role in active shooting incidents for the April/May 2009 issue of 9-1-1 Magazine.