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Sign Up For Hyper-Reach

The Humphreys County 911 Center will be joining an alert system named Hyper-Reach that will allow messages to be sent from the 911-dispatch office to cell phones via text message, an email sent to your email address,  messages sent to your Hyper-Reach App and alerts sent to landline phones.  We will be transitioning from the Nixle platform to the new Hyper-Reach over the next two months.  We will be sending messages on both platforms beginning on February 1, 2022 and continue until...

Interested in Employment at the 911 Center

  The center is currently staffed by 10 full time employees and maintains minimum staffing of 2 dispatchers per shift. In November of 2004 the center implemented a formal training program for new hires that includes 4 weeks of on the job training with a Communications Training Officer (CTO), in addition to the more than 104 hours of classroom training required within the first six months of hire.  Newly hired dispatchers are held in probationary status during this time...

How to Display Your Address

  The 9-1-1 system is your first source of help in times of crisis and it can mean the difference in life and death.  When you dial 9-1-1 within Humphreys County, your call is routed to our 911 Center and is immediately answered by a 911 Dispatcher.  The Dispatcher will see on their screen: The phone number you are calling from The Address you are calling from The closest police department, fire district and ambulance service Our computerized mapping system will display your address...

Changes to Child Safety Seat Restraint Law

Here is a summary of the changes in the child restraint law in Tennessee that went into effect on July 1, 2004: Children under 1 year of age or weighing less than 20 pounds need to be in a backward-facing child-passenger restraint system in the rear seat, if the car has one. Children 1-3 and weighing 20 pounds or more would have to be in a forward-facing car seat in the back seat. Children 4-8 and less than 5 feet tall would have to be in a booster seat that lifts them to the right height for...