Chula Vista (CA) Police Captain Don Redmond is responsible for special projects at the department and led an initiative with the Chula Vista Police Department, Global Traffic Technologies and Motorola last year to launch a pilot program that would see the CVPD be the first law enforcement agency in the country to deploy a new cloud-hosted, incident-based priority control solution from Opticom™. 

Mike Haldane, vice president of marketing at Global Traffic Technologies, explains how preemption can benefit police and previews GTT’s upcoming launch of Opticom™ for Law Enforcement in early April.

Show Low (AZ) Police Chief Joe Shelley joins the podcast to detail how three Arizona agencies worked together to implement Opticom™ Priority Control as a Service™.  

Merrillville (IN) Fire Chief Ed Yerga comes on to share how he helped spearhead the effort to obtain federal grant funding and bring Opticom EVP to Northwest Indiana. 

The booming Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie has had preemption for law enforcement for the past few decades. In this episode, Grand Prairie (TX) PD Support Services Division Ryan Simpson details his police department’s long history with preemption and why it considers that technology as essential to its job performance as lights, sirens and badges. 

Mike Pate, commissioner of Harris County (TX) Emergency Services District No. 16, explains how a consortium of seven local agencies upgraded its legacy preemption technology to a more modern, connected solution following the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. 

Mike Taylor, senior systems specialist with Houston-based Taylor Traffic Systems, discusses his role in implementing centralized preemption in Harris County, Texas.

Frank Blackley, the longtime assistant fire chief in Wilmington, NC who retired last year, explains how the Wilmington (N.C.) Fire Dept. got creative and worked with their city to finance Opticom™ Emergency Vehicle Preemption. 

Myrtle Beach (SC) Fire Chief Tom Gwyer explain why his city needed emergency vehicle preemption and why they chose a subscription-based model in Opticom™ Priority Control as a Service. 

Blake Redfield, traffic system manager for the city of St. Cloud (MN), discusses a five-year pilot program his city ran to test if Opticom™ relative preemption could help improve the efficiency of the city's snowplows.