On behalf of the Board of Directors, membership community, and staff of The Monitoring Association (TMA), it is with great joy that we extend our best wishes to APCO International, its leadership, and its members …
Atlanta 911’s ECC Movie is “The Usual Suspects.” The plot is that on any given day, you can catch co-workers mentoring and encouraging one another, stepping up where needed, and working like a well-oiled machine. …
Each year the second week in April is known as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week and a chance for the over 100,000 public safety telecommunicators working in emergency communications centers (ECCs) across the globe to …
Our final post focuses on getting recognition from partner agencies, government departments and the public. Here are some ideas suggested by other emergency communications centers.
95% of responding agencies said they provide gifts to their public safety telecommunicators during NPSTW. In this post, we share ideas for gifts and how they are financed.
Theme days are a fun and inexpensive way to celebrate. In this post, we share the answers to the question: Do you celebrate theme days? If so, what have been some of the staff’s favorite days in which to participate?
In February, APCO’s Member & Chapter Services Committee (MCSC) surveyed chapters about how they celebrate National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week. The survey included questions about financing NPSTW, theme days, gifts, public recognition and more. 29 …
Thank you to all who participated in the NPSTW 2023 contest “Who Is Your Sidekick or Super Team?” We loved reading so many compelling stories from our favorite superheroes. All of the entries demonstrated the …
Thank you to everyone who participated in our NPSTW contest asking what superpowers are possessed by or desired by public safety telecommunications. You are all superheroes in our book! The winner of the $100 gift …
NPSTW contest coming soon! It’s been a tough year, and we know that all of you are superheroes, but now we want to know who inspires YOU, in or out of the ECC? Maybe it’s …
During NPSTW 2020 a number of the agencies we dispatch, are providing meals to the team in appreciation for their hard work and dedication. In addition, one of our fire based customers created the video in honor of the 60-Control team.
For NPSTW 2020, we are again offering to “buy you lunch” but this year, recognizing the vast difference in comm center sizes, there will be two prizes.
The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International announced today that St. Louis County Police Bureau of Communications is the winner of APCO’s National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW) 2019 contest, in which emergency communications …
In our minds, people can never hear enough about the heroic and everyday things you do. So we’re asking you again to submit your stories during the lead-up to NPSTW 2018. Tell us what means …
Read what agencies and individuals around the world are saying to and about public safety telecommunicators in honor of NPSTW 2016, and use hashtag #nsptw to voice your own thoughts. [fts_twitter search=#npstw%20-RT +exclude:retweets exclude=retweets twitter_height=1200 …
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