Good evening, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Board and Ms. Mull. I would like to start with thanking you all for allowing me to speak to you this evening in reference to National 9-1-1 Awareness and Education Month as well as National Telecommunicator Week. To say it...

Lowndes County, Georgia– Lowndes County 911 is celebrating the second full week of April (April 10-16) as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. This week, sponsored by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and...

Summit County is planning to spend $75 million on a fiber internet project that will include building a 125-mile fiber optic ring to connect public safety entities in all 31 county communities and help expand internet access for residents and businesses. There are...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqojHil1ySY April 10th marks the start of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. It's a time to appreciate the operators who answer 911 calls. Manesa Dhanabalan spent the day with Halton Police Communicators who provided a...

DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF) -- National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week is April 10-16. Local agencies are showing their appreciation by bringing dispatchers food or other goodies. Montgomery County Regional Dispatch Center serves more than 60% of the county, dispatches...

The second full week of April (April 10-16) is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. This week, sponsored by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and celebrated annually, honors the thousands of men and women who...

Sheriff Bill Brown and members of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office will be celebrating and thanking dispatchers and call-takers during Nation Public Safety Communications Week, April 10-16. Santa Barbara County Sheriff dispatchers and call-takers provide...

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - April 14 – 20 is Dispatcher Appreciation Week.  Eglin has its own dispatchers made up of both firefighters and security forces Airmen all under one roof known as the Emergency Communications Center. Their job is to direct all emergency and...

The gateway for access to emergency services is 911. At all hours of the day or night a citizen or visitor to Winchester, Frederick or Clarke County will call 911 to get help from fire-rescue, the sheriff’s office, city or town police, or animal control services. A...

This is a week to celebrate and recognize those who are on the other side of the phone line when we're in trouble. The City of Yakima is celebrating the second full week of April (April 10-16) as National Telecommunicators Week. The week honors the men and women who...

This week is National Telecommunicators Week!  This week is set aside to recognize the 911 dispatchers for their hard work in assisting the public with any type of call that may require law enforcement, EMS or the fire department. Starke County Sheriff’s Department...

LOGAN COUNTY, Ill. - Every year, the 2nd week of April is nationally dedicated to honoring telecommunications personnel in the public safety community. The week-long event, which began in 1981, celebrates and honors those special individuals who chose to serve the...

(Fort McMurray, AB – April 11, 2022) – Regional Emergency Services (RES) joined an elite group having been recognized by The International Academies of Emergency Dispatch® (IAEDTM) as an Accredited Center of Excellence (ACE) for emergency fire dispatching. The RES...

This week is National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, honouring the telecommunication personnel dedicating their lives to public safety. "The dispatchers in emergency services are often forgotten about. We are the ones to take the first call with an emergency....

Rebecca Langley - Operations Manager Becky Langley hears it all the time.  “Well, you’re just a dispatcher.” But what exactly is a dispatcher? A 911 dispatcher or Telecommunicator is a highly trained professional and the first point of contact in an emergency. They...

LOCK HAVEN — You don’t know their names, couldn’t recognize their faces while walking down the street. But, if you’ve ever been faced with an emergency, you’ve heard their voices. Clinton County’s 911 dispatchers are often the unsung heroes of emergency personnel....

BATAVIA — Federal funding to replace police and fire department radios, as well as aid to help with a new public safety building and police station are on the city’s mind. “The city has already invested $125,000 in replacing 49 portable radios,” City Manager Rachael...

Employees of the Schuylkill County Communications Center were recognized at Wednesday’s commissioners meeting. “We had a situation Monday the 28th where Interstate 81 north became a mess,” commissioners Chairman Barron L. Hetherington said. Six people died when 80...

Macon-Bibb County said it quietly relinquished oversight of the E-911 center and assigned it to the sheriff’s office in early March MACON, Ga. — Edwin Iwo was at the wheel of his Dodge SUV, cutting through the Vineville neighborhood one Sunday evening in January when...

Our 911 Emergency Communications Centre (ECC) is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. They answer 911 and non-emergency calls while dispatching Police and Fire Services. Not only do our Communicators and Dispatchers answer 911 in an Emergency,...