If you ask the women and men who answer nearly 250 million calls to 911 each year about their remarkable work, they’ll probably tell you they’re just doing their job. But the truth is they’re helping to save many lives every day. That’s why, for nearly 40 years, communities nationwide have made it a point to observe National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week during the second week of April…
Long hours, chaos and stress are some of the defining characteristics of a dispatcher’s daily job.
For the most part, these individuals remain behind the scenes at computer monitors but this week they are being recognized for their hard work and dedication.
National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, held each year during the second week of April, recognizes the integral role dispatchers play as a part of first responders’ teams, including fire, police and EMS…
A Murray County 911 dispatcher who was fired for illegally tracing a vehicle license plate number while on duty pleaded guilty to felony computer invasion of privacy in Superior Court on Wednesday.
Billie Jane Allen, 33, of 356 W. Walnut St., was arrested on June 15, 2009, by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office. A dispatcher for four years, she was fired four days later.
Judge Robert Adams ordered a pre-sentence investigation after Allen’s plea. Allen was arrested in July…
With the introduction of texting to Loudon County E-911 Center, residents have another way to get help in an emergency.
“The state of Tennessee has been working on the Next Generation 9-1-1 platform, which will allow 911 districts to receive text messages, eventually video messages, pictures, things of that nature, for about five years now,” Jennifer White, local 911 center director, said. “So it’s been a statewide rollout and it just became an option to become live over this last year, essentially about a six-month time frame for districts…
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Parts of Las Vegas will be shining gold this week to honor local telecommunicators, also known as dispatchers, during National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
This week, from April 12-18, Las Vegas City Hall and lights on Main Street in downtown Las Vegas will be gold to honor those individuals working as 9-1-1 operators, or dispatchers, in our community.
Each year, one week in April is selected to recognize public safety communicators for their performance in helping to save lives and property… READ MORE
LAURINBURG — Tele-communicators, also known as 911 operators, are often the unsung heroes and the “man behind the curtain.” However, the Scotland County Board of Commissioners has set out to change that.
At its last meeting on April 6, the board made a resolution stating that Scotland County will recognize National Public Safety Telecommunicator’s week, which began on Sunday… READ MORE
