In 1994, former President Bill Clinton signed it into law, declaring the second week of April a week to honor and appreciate dispatch workers across the country.
Locally, the Columbus-Platte County Joint Communications Center provides emergency dispatch services for the area. Communications Director Rachel Pensick said dispatchers do more than most people realize…
GRIFFIN — The Spalding County Sheriff’s Office showed its appreciation for the office’s dispatchers during National Public Safety Telecommunications Week.
“Dispatchers are the unsung heroes of public safety,” Spalding County Sheriff Darrell Dix said. “They are always there to answer the call, providing an indispensable service 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.”
Dix presented dispatchers with gifts on Wednesday and treated the staff to breakfast on Thursday…
Those on the front lines of all Colleton County emergencies are being honored this week.
This week is national “911 Dispatcher Appreciation Week,” a time for dispatchers to be honored for their part in helping to save those in need.
In Colleton, businesses are donating food for the dispatchers to have free lunches.
The appreciation week began on April 10th and continues through April 16th. The donated items thus far include energy teas that were given to emergency dispatchers on Tuesday during their shifts; the teas were donated by Lowcountry Nutrition…
Doni Whitecotton of Granite Shoals, the communications manager for the Llano County Sheriff’s Office, in the telecommunications hub at the Law Enforcement Center on Texas 16 west of the Llano River. Staff photo by Suzanne Freeman
They are the first of the first responders, the initial problem solvers in what emergency managers call the chain of survival. Dispatchers in Llano and Burnet counties work for their respective sheriffs, taking 911 calls, gathering information, and deciding which services should be sent where in what many times are life-or-death situations. And they do it all simultaneously within seconds of answering a call with “What is your emergency?” …
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) – First responders in Kanawha County are about to get a boost to help make their jobs easier and keep you safer. Officials presented the final public safety communications tower in the multi-year project on Thursday.
Officials say some of the towers in the county were more than 40 years old. The project included adding two new Metro 911 towers, one at the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority and the refurbishing of an additional towner in Clendenin – totaling 9 towers in the county. It cost $1.2 million in funding to complete the project with some of that funding coming from the Kanawha County Public Safety Levy…
