Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

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Grant discussed about 911 calls last month about not able to call 911 while you are on the road. He figures it is probably the next best thing is call police department’s front desk or non-emergency phone line. They can help you even it is not 911 calls.

This list based in Dallas & Fort Worth, Texas Police Department Directory – he got all information from http://local.google.com – hopefully these are good information; not outdated or old phone number.

If you live outside DFW area, get information from Google or look up your Yellow Page book. Again, he hope this suggestion will help you the ability to call for help real time thru relay service online such as instant messenger or standalone program with your Blackberry, Sidekick, Treo, etc.

Disclaimer: Use this list as your own risk – please select one that you live and call to confirm.

Updated: 10/14/07

Garland Police Department
217 N 5th St
Garland, TX 75040
(972) 205-2150
www.garland.tx.us

Richardson Police Department
140 N Greenville Ave
Richardson, TX 75081
(972) 744-4800
www.cor.net

Plano Police Department
909 14th St
Plano, TX 75074
(972) 424-5678
www.planopolice.org

Mesquite Police Department
711 N Galloway Ave
Mesquite, TX 75149
(972) 216-6228
www.cityofmesquite.com

Dallas Police Department
1400 S Lamar St
Dallas, TX 75215
(214) 671-3011
www.dallaspolice.net

Fort Worth Police Department
350 W Belknap St
Fort Worth, TX 76102
(817) 335-4222
www.fortworthpd.com

Sachse City Police Department
3815 Sachse Rd
Sachse, TX 75048
(972) 495-2005
www.cityofsachse.com

Wylie Police Department
2000 N Highway 78
Wylie, TX 75098
www.wylie.tx.us

Murphy Police Department
206 N Murphy Rd
Murphy, TX 75094
(972) 468-4236
www.murphytx.org

Rowlett Police Department
4401 Rowlett Rd
Rowlett, TX 75088
(972) 412-6200
www.rowlett.tx.us

Addison Police Department
4799 Airport Pkwy
Addison, TX 75001
(972) 450-7100
www.addison.tx.us

Farmers Branch Police Department
3723 Valley View Ln
Dallas, TX 75244
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(972) 484-3620
www.farmers-branch.tx.us

Irving Police Department
305 N O Connor Rd
Irving, TX 75061
(972) 721-7800

Carrollton Police Department
2025 E Jackson Rd
Carrollton, TX 75006
(972) 466-3290
www.cityofcarrollton.com

Allen Police Department
205 W Mcdermott Dr
Allen, TX 75013
(214) 509-4201
www.allenpolice.org

Parker Police Department
5700 E Parker Rd
Allen, TX 75002
(972) 442-6999
www.parkertexas.us

Frisco Police Department
8750 Mckinney Rd # 500
Frisco, TX 75034
(972) 335-5505
www.frisco.tx.us

Lake Dallas Police Department
212 Main St
Lake Dallas, TX 75065
(940) 497-2228
www.lakedallas.com

Colony Police Department
5151 N Colony Blvd
The Colony, TX 75056
(972) 625-1887
www.thecolonypd.org

Prosper Police Department
110 W Broadway St
Prosper, TX 75078
(972) 347-9002
www.prospertx.gov

Lewisville Police Department
184 N Valley Pkwy
Lewisville, TX 75067
(972) 219-3600
www.cityoflewisville.com

Mc Kinney Police Department
2200 Taylor Burk Dr
Mckinney, TX 75071
(972) 547-7600
www.mckinneypolice.org

Flower Mound Police Department
4150 Kirkpatrick Ln
Flower Mound, TX 75028
(972) 539-0525
www.flower-mound.com

Denton Police Department
601 E Hickory St
Denton, TX 76205
(940) 349-7923
www.cityofdenton.com

Arlington Police Department
620 W Division St
Arlington, TX 76011
(817) 459-5748
www.arlingtonpd.org

Lancaster Police Department
1501 N Dallas Ave
Lancaster, TX 75134
(972) 227-4006

De Soto City Police Department
714 E Belt Line Rd
Desoto, TX 75115
(972) 223-6111
www.desoto.tx.us

Glenn Heights Police Department
550 E Bear Creek Rd
Red Oak, TX 75154
(972) 223-3478
www.glennheights.com

Red Oak Police Department
547 Methodist St
Red Oak, TX 75154
(972) 617-7632
www.redoaktx.org

Duncanville City Police Department
203 E Wheatland Rd
Duncanville, TX 75116
(972) 780-5038
www.duncanville.com

Cedar Hill Police Department
601 E Belt Line Rd
Cedar Hill, TX 75104
(972) 291-5181
www.cedarhill.tx.us

Grapevine Police Department
307 W Dallas Rd
Grapevine, TX 76051
(817) 410-8127

Southlake Police Department
667 N Carroll Ave
Grapevine, TX 76092
(817) 748-8149
www.cityofsouthlake.com

Coppell Police Department
130 Town Center Blvd
Coppell, TX 75019
(972) 304-3600
www.coppell.tx.us

Bedford Police Department
2000 Forest Ridge Dr
Bedford, TX 76021
(817) 952-2440
www.bedfordpolice.com

Euless City Police Department
1102 W Euless Blvd
Euless, TX 76040
(817) 685-1500

Hurst Police Patrol Division
1501 Precinct Line Rd
Hurst, TX 76054
(817) 788-7156
www.hurst.tx.us

Waco Police Department
721 N 4th St
Waco, TX 76701
(254) 750-7500
www.waco-texas.com

Midlothian Police Department
101 W Avenue F
Midlothian, TX 76065
(972) 775-3333
www.midlothian.tx.us

Mansfield Police Department
1601 Heritage Pkwy
Mansfield, TX 76063
(817) 473-0211
www.mansfieldpolice.com

Benbrook Police Department
1080 Mercedes St
Benbrook, TX 76126
(817) 249-2752
www.benbrook.tx.us

Police Emergency Calls: White Settlement
214 Meadow Park Dr
White Settlement, TX 76108
(817) 246-4971
www.white-settlement.tx.us

Keller Police Department
330 Rufe Snow Dr
Keller, TX 76248
(817) 743-4500
www.kellerpd.com

Trophy Club Police Department
100 Municipal Dr
Roanoke, TX 76262
(682) 831-4650
www.trophyclub.org

Roanoke Police Department
609 Dallas Dr
Roanoke, TX 76262
(817) 999-1111

City of Grand Prairie Police Department
801 Conover Dr
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
(972) 237-8790
www.grandprairiepolice.org

Hutchins Police Department
205 W Hickman St
Hutchins, TX 75141
(972) 225-2224
www.cityofhutchins.org

Grant discussed about emergency 911 calls that he had bad experience from recent incident.

He mentioned that last week, he saw “hit and run” a car accidents near my house. He was ready to make 911 calls, but he could not do it – he has no way to call 911. Lucky he and neighbor stopped by their house and found out they knew about it.

He also talked about his two experiences with 911 calls.

He was mowing the front lawns during the day and saw a man hit by big branches when he is cutting the tree. (Elderly couple lives there) He ran into his house and makes 911 calls thru his TTY Modem – his only source to make calls. (He hardly used TTY machine for years) Unfortunately, he has difficult time reach 911 dispatcher center, then he ended up got TTY machine from a garage to make call. He was too late, someone already called.

Few years later, he saw small fire at a huge trash bins by public school. He was middle of nowhere except houses and school itself. He was ready to make 911 calls, but he really cannot call – it has to be TTY or voice. Five minutes later, another vehicle passed by and called 911 right away.

Again, he was disappointed; he cannot even make simple 911 calls from his cell phone. (Whether it is Blackberry, Sidekick or Treo), He expressed, we should have an alternative such as emergency call thru emails, AIM or SMS. How can we make it possible? Do we have this kind service in another area already?

Grant W. Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

Grant discussed about Best Buy Store (see announcement here and here) — he said that Best Buy Store contributing their employees to learn ASL in Washington DC area is a great idea! Hope other stores will copy the idea.

However, he expressed his concern if this store hire enough deaf and hard of hearing people to work at a retail level stores or even in management positions. He knew few people work at the retail level stores including warehouses but none at the management levels. They need to work on it

What’s more, he strong believe that Best Buy store including another store like Wal-mart, Target, Circuit City, that does not provide closed caption when we are looking at TV or HDTV display. This is one of the biggest disadvantages we have right now since it is very important for us to look and see, which brand have better caption quality such as font size, quality and all that stuff.

The Bottom line, Best Buy does a good job with this idea – hopefully they will expand into others that Grant mentioned. Maybe other stores will follow Best Buy Store.

TDI published a press release called Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Advocacy Network Demands Fairness for Consumers Buying HDTV from Retailers. This is a must check out!

Grant W Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com