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July 16, 2007
Jon Arnold / Rod Piukkala - Telus and Emergency Communications
On this week's podcast, Jon spoke with Rod Piukkala, Director, Telus Business Solutions. Within this group his focus is on the Ontario Public Sector, and he joined Jon to speak about the current state of emergency communications in Canada.
He provided an overview of the challenges faced by first responders to emergency situations, and the need to collaborate quickly with real time information. Rod provided some specific examples with a health care scenario, and shared his own perspective of what it is like being on the front lines when these events occur. He also spoke about how Telus is addressing this market with their Web-based SafetyNet solution.
Rod Piukkala is a Director, TELUS Business Solutions, Ontario Public Sector, for TELUS Communications Inc., working out of Toronto. He has been employed with TELUS since September 2006 after retiring from the public safety sector in July of that year. He is presently responsible for ensuring the products, services and solutions offered by TELUS are compatible and responsive to the needs of Ontario municipalities and public safety agencies, the Province of Ontario and the federal government. Key focuses of those offerings are emergency management and security applications.
He is formerly the Deputy Chief of Police with the Durham Regional Police, east of Toronto, which employs in excess of 1100 members. He has previous experience as the Chief of Police of a mid-sized police service (Oxford Community Police Service) and held progressive leadership roles within Peel Regional Police where he attained the rank of Superintendent. He was a high profile member of Peel Regional Police for in excess of 26 years, with extensive Homicide investigation experience. Peel Regional Police has approximately 1900 staff.
Posted at July 16, 2007 03:04 PM
