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McConnell Public Safety and Transportation Operations Center

Agencies Housed in the McConnell PSTOC

Fairfax County

• The Department of Public Safety Communications (DPSC - the county's 9-1-1 Call Center), which receives and dispatches all 9-1-1 emergency and nonemergency police, fire and rescue calls in the county.
  
  
• The Office of Emergency Management (OEM), which oversees and activates the county's Emergency Operations Center during emergency incidents. OEM is equipped to receive and transmit Homeland Security and emergency information to state, regional and federal partners.
  
  
• The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department and Police Department have staff on the operations floor assisting with specific fire and police dispatching.
  
  
• The Police Department's Forensics facility is housed in a separate building connected to the McConnell PSTOC.
  
  

Commonwealth of Virginia

• The Virginia Department of Transportation's (VDOT) Northern Region Transportation Operations Center (TOC) and Signal System.  The TOC monitors traffic and incidents by using cameras and other information-gathering mechanisms to better manage day-to-day traffic flow and large incidents.
  
  
• The Virginia Department of State Police (VSP) Division 7 communications center, which receives and dispatches all #77 (interstate-related) calls for the Northern Virginia region. Dispatchers from Division 7 will move from their current location on Braddock Road in Fairfax. 

 
Construction History of MPSTOC

 A history of the construction of MPSTOC, from artist's renderings to completion.

 

In October 2008, the McConnell Public Safety and Transportation Operations Center was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting by members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, local and state dignitaries, and the center's namesake, former Fairfax County Supervisor Elaine McConnell. View images of the ribbon-cutting ceremony.