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Board of Commissioners — Public Safety Committee

Wake County · Board of Commissioners
Monday, November 2, 2026 at 10:00 am · Wake County Justice Center

Committee meeting Police and public safetyFire and EMS

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What's on this agenda

Wake EMS brings its three-month report on the new way it ranks 911 calls, rolled out from June 1. Calls now fall into four priorities, from E1, a lights-and-siren response within 12 minutes, to E4, transferred to a nurse advice line. The slides show E1 calls arriving within target 82.2% of the time, against 74.8% a year earlier. Fire departments are answering about 22 fewer EMS calls a day countywide and waiting about a minute less for an ambulance.

The committee also hears from the Bureau of Forensic Services on its new DNA laboratory, which took its first case July 16. The lab cost about $1.7 million, of which court fees and grants covered about $1.2 million. By October 22 it had finished 57 of 60 requests, almost all sexual assault kits, in an average of 12 days.

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Agenda items (6)

Procedural · 3Staff or committee report · 2Minutes approval · 1
  1. Meeting Called to Order: Committee Chair Vickie Adamson
    Procedural
  2. 1. Agenda
    Procedural
  3. 2. Approval of the Minutes of the Public Safety Committee Meeting of July 6, 2026
    Minutes approval Police and public safety
  4. 3. EMS Response Reconfiguration Update
    Staff or committee report Fire and EMS
    An interim report on the four-tier EMS response plan. E1 calls made up 27% of volume against a predicted 20%, E1 compliance with the 12-minute target rose to 82.2%, and fire department calls fell from 217 to about 195 a day. A six-month assessment is due in early 2027.
  5. 4. Bureau of Forensic Services DNA Lab Update
    Staff or committee report Police and public safety
    The bureau's new DNA lab, about $1.7 million to build, received 60 requests by October 22, 58 of them sexual assault kits, and completed 57 in an average of 12 days. It has made 23 entries in the FBI's CODIS database, producing 8 hits.
  6. Adjourn
    Procedural

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