Attention, Canadians!We’ll be featuring Money Diaries from across Canada on a regular basis, and we want to hear from you. Submit your Money Diaryhere.Today: a 911 dispatcher and part-time grocery courier who makes $89,322 per year and spends some of her money this week on Reese’s peanut butter chocolate spread.
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. —
On March 28, 2018, Hardin County dispatcher Kendra Murphy took a call, but only heard static.
She was about to disconnect, but something told her to stay on the line. She said she heard two people talking and something about a gun.
Eventually, Murphy remembered, the caller got on the phone.
In the 911 call, the woman was heard saying, “It’s my uncle. He lives next door to me. He just told me he shot his wife in the garage, and he’s going now to John Hardin (High School) to pick up his son.”
Are you a Canadian citizen or permanent resident with a high school education and proficiency in the English language?
If so, the B.C. RCMP has a job opportunity for you.
The Mounties are looking to hire new dispatchers in British Columbia, and they’re promising a “modernized and streamlined” application process for new recruits.
On Wednesday, the B.C. RCMP announced the launch of a new dispatcher recruitment website, bcrcmp911.ca, which provides information about the job and the application process to prospective employees.
Dalton Fire Chief Todd Pangle honored Whitfield County 911 dispatcher Nicole Talman with a Citizen Recognition Award at a recent meeting of the Dalton Public Safety Commission.
“Our 911 dispatchers do a great job helping to keep our community safe,” Pangle said, “and at (the Aug. 27) meeting of the Dalton Public Safety Commission we were able to honor one of them for her role in saving the life of a young child.”
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – On Wednesday, the Clearlake Police Department took a key step in its plans to improve services to the community by beginning its function as a primary public safety answering point.
Before Wednesday, when individuals dialed 911 in the city of Clearlake, their calls were routed to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Central Dispatch for police matters and then transferred to the Clearlake Police Department.
The circuitous process included delays and prevented dispatchers from accessing automated caller location information, including from cellular callers, with dispatchers having to then ask more questions to know whether the call was for police or fire, the latter being relayed to Cal Fire’s St. Helena dispatch.
In an emergency before firefighters, law enforcement, or EMS head out to help it’s up to the men and women who work at the 911 center to calm the caller down and get the right amount of first responders to the aid.
911 calls can be anything from someone who needs help after falling to dealing with a suicide or a mass shooting.
