CALEDONIA – Each year, American Legion posts across the region submit nominees or the American Legion Department of New York State Law and Order and First Responder Awards. The annual awards program recognizes police officers, firefighters, corrections officers, emergency medical personnel and 911 dispatchers who have given above and beyond for their local community – either through their extended service or through a single, seminal act…
MARSHALL COUNTY, Ind. – Marshall County Dispatcher, Jim Budd was awarded the Indiana Association of Public Safety Communications Officers Telecommunicator of the Year.
This award is only awarded to one Telecommunicator or Dispatcher in the state of Indiana each year according to officials.
Jim Budd has worked at the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office since 2007 as a dispatcher and turnkey…
At some point in your career, you lose track. After answering thousands of calls, listening to countless hours of radio traffic, and providing EMD instructions, you are bound to have a moment of complacency. It may be something as simple as not getting vehicle colors in an accident call. It may be something that does not affect the call’s outcome.
Other times, it can be detrimental to the safety of your officers, firefighters, or other first responders. You did not ask about weapons or any number of other things as we run through our checklist of questions. You just happened to miss one on this call. Now you are scrambling, trying to get the caller back on the line to get more information for your officers…
This is the journey-level classification in the series. Incumbents are expected to possess a complete understanding of the functions, responsibilities and procedures of the dispatch division and perform the full range of duties with a minimum of supervision. Incumbents may assist in training less experienced dispatchers…
The husband and wife were both taken by COVID-19 in a matter of weeks, leaving their three grown children, along with their grandchildren, unable to say a proper goodbye.
Guadalupe, also referred to as Lupe, was a longtime 911 dispatcher at Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management, where he was memorialized earlier this week; and Maria had an income tax business in Little Village…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
