The Seattle Police Department (SPD) responded to calls of a possible armed kidnapping at a cemetery and found ICE agents who ...

SEATTLE — Experienced officers or 911 dispatchers could get a $25,000 hiring bonus, and new hires could get a $10,000 bonus, if they sign on with the Seattle Police Department or the Community Safety ...

SEATTLE - Thursday, a Seattle 911 call center got a surprise: More than two dozen emergency calls came in, not just from the wrong city, but the wrong state. A technological mishap was routing 911 ...

SEATTLE - Calls for help are sometimes meeting long delays as the city’s 911 system finds itself understaffed and overwhelmed. It is a potentially critical collapse in Seattle's public safety net and ...

Seattle Police are changing the way 911 calls are handled. Under a new system, lower priority calls will be funneled into a queue. If an officer never responds to that call, a supervisor can just ...

During the Seattle protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police in 2020, a common refrain from advocates and elected officials was the need for someone besides an officer “with a ...

A number of counties across Washington state were reporting a 911 outage Thursday. As of 5 p.m., the Washington Emergency Management Division said it has been told that “most 911 services have been ...

Seattle business owners are fearing the looming vaccine mandate deadline for police officers and firefighters will further lengthen response time to 911 calls, as the city that saw months of violent ...

While Seattle councilmembers debated a potential $5.4 million budget cut to the city’s police department on Tuesday, Councilmember Andrew Lewis looked to point the council’s long-term priorities ...

Seattle is testing a big change in its 911 response. The city plans to add a team of civilian mental health professionals to its 911 center later this year. It’s a small pilot project that's part of a ...

One afternoon last August, Jeanne Tiscareno returned to her Capitol Hill home to find the front door open and the house ransacked. She called 911 and waited on a nearby sidewalk for Seattle police to ...