ECC (Emergency Communications Center)
A facility that is designated to receive a 9–1–1 request for emergency assistance and perform one or more of the following functions:
- Process and analyze 9–1–1 requests for emergency assistance and other gathered information.
- Dispatch appropriate emergency response providers.
- Transfer or exchange 9–1–1 requests for emergency assistance and other gathered information with other emergency communications centers and emergency response providers.
- Analyze any communications received from emergency response providers.
- Support incident command functions.