FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Monday is the first day of National Public Safety Telecommunications Week.These men and women are vital in helping keep first responders and citizens safe in our community.
Dispatch officers everywhere are being celebrated this week for their hard work and dedication.
“We move from one emergency to the next and sometimes, without any breaks at all. These dispatchers have a very rough job, so we want to make sure they get a chance to decompress,” says American Ambulance Communications Director Jamie Martin…
This Week is National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week.
National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week was originally introduced to Congress in 1991 as a means of honoring everyone who works in public safety telecommunications. Historically, the week has been marked by a letter from the President of the United States congratulating the dedicated and hard-working individuals who work in public safety telecommunications.
This week is an important reminder of how essential 9-1-1 call takers, police, fire and EMS dispatchers, and related support staff are to public safety… READ MORE
Over the past 10 months, Louie Sanchez has called the police nearly a dozen times about the goings-on outside his Allstate Agency office on Central and 61st. And the city councilor — a former Albuquerque Police Department officer — wants to know why officers weren’t immediately dispatched to his latest report about a man threatening or maybe hitting another with a gun. He said he believes calls are getting downgraded from what should be considered the highest priority to where officers are not even sent to the scene.
Last week, after the last meeting, council services requested the city’s Office of Internal Audit conduct an audit of 911 emergency response times, said Nicole Kelley, the city auditor. She said they are determining what the scope and objective of that review would be…
They are often referred to as the “first first-responders” – 911 dispatchers see and hear a lot on the job, and this week is dedicated to them and the service they provide. National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week was created in 1981 to dedicate a week to those in the public safety community.
Great Falls dispatchers say they are seeing an increased volume of calls and that the national week of recognition helps spotlight their jobs…
SANTA MARA, Calif. — Public safety agencies across the country are taking time this week to honor dispatcher workers during National Public Safety Communications Week, which runs from April 10-16.
“Our public safety dispatchers and call takers are an extraordinary group of women and men who answer calls for help 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said in a statement. “Answering calls for help from members of the public and dispatching cops, paramedics and firefighters to law enforcement, medical and fire emergencies, many of which are interconnected, requires great levels of dedication to duty, coolness under extreme conditions, technical skills, an outstanding ability to communicate, and large doses of tact, patience, common sense and empathy for the plight of others…
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.
