Mayor Turner appoints interim director of Houston Emergency Center to permanent role

Mayor Sylvester Turner has appointed the interim director of the Houston Emergency Center to the permanent role, according to a press release.

Robert Mock took on the interim role on Feb. 1, a day after the previous director, David Cutler, retired. Cutler served as the director of the Houston Emergency Center since July 2005.

The Houston Emergency Center, a division of the Mayor’s Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security, was developed in 2003 to consolidate three emergency communications…