Carson City Sheriff’s Office recognizes recent dispatcher retirements, highlights National Telecommunicators Week (NV)

This week is designated National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, honoring those in the field of emergency call-taking by recognizing them for their quick thinking actions as they navigate telephone lifeline responses between those needing help and those first fire and sheriff’s office responders arriving on scene.

This spring there have been a number of retirements in the Carson City Dispatch Center, accounting for more than 90 years of combined service. Beginning in March, Carson City’s dispatch center has seen three retirements…

Police Dispatcher I/II Job Opening (CA)

The City of Healdsburg is currently recruiting for the opportunity of Police Dispatcher! Submit an application today at: https://www.ci.healdsburg.ca.us/ Applications will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 26, 2020.

This is an opportunity to serve the City of Healdsburg in an impactful and meaningful way. Police Dispatchers perform communications between Police and Fire personnel, the general public and other…

UK Police Department Celebrates its Dispatchers This Week (KY)

LEXINGTON, KY. (April 14, 2020) — We all hear of first responders — the police, fire and paramedic crews that are first on scene of emergencies. But the literal first responders of first responders are the communications officers who take calls about those emergencies.

April 12-18 is designated National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW), a time to recognize those personnel without whom public safety officers would not be able to perform their work…

Stuck In Public Safety: The Unspoken Truth From The First, First Responder

The small, quarter-sized headset behind my ear with a yellow heartbeat running through it may seem like a foolish thing to tattoo on one’s body. But for me, it was a symbol of something that will forever be a part of me mentally, emotionally and now physically. It was about putting something dainty and beautiful near the place where so many wretched and dark things had been introduced to me…

LISTEN: County 911 Dispatch Radios a Tribute (PA)

In a moving tribute, Beaver County 911 DIspatch has radioed Aliquippa Acting Police Chief Robert Sealock and Ambridge Interim Police Chief Romutis for the final time.

Using its Beaver County 911 Center radio identifier “856”, an emergency dispatcher repeatedly called over the airwaves for Sealock and Romutis..she received no answer.