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Dinowitz questions monitoring systems for detecting outages

New York City Council · Sep 9, 2026 · starts 2:29:07 · 1 min 15 sec

Dinowitz asks what systems exist to know if systems are online or if there's an outage. Gelobter confirms monitoring exists at different infrastructure levels but can't detail for security reasons. She adds interim manual measures including hourly call recording sampling and PD call taker training on dead air call escalation.

Eric Dinowitz

What are systems that we have in place currently to let us know whether the systems we have are online or there's an outage?

Lisa Gelobter

Yes, thank you for that question.

Lisa Gelobter

There is current monitoring systems at different levels of the infrastructure.

Lisa Gelobter

And again, I can't get into too much detail on that because of security concerns.

Lisa Gelobter

But in addition to the technological monitoring that is in place, we have all of the agencies are working together collaboratively to ensure that there are

Lisa Gelobter

manual systems today that will be looking at looking to try to capture any of these issues that might reoccur.

Lisa Gelobter

So whether that is manually or hourly sampling call recordings, we are working with the PD call takers to figure out what the right criteria is

Unidentified speaker

to escalate what I would term dead air calls, and then as well what that process should be to investigate them and deliver a substantiation of the issue.

Unidentified speaker

So there are a number of things that we are looking at.

Unidentified speaker

There are already some things that we have put into place in the interim, and then we also need to figure out the long-term strategy.