In honor of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, the City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) is implementing a week-long plan to acknowledge our amazing 911 call takers and dispatchers. The plan includes creating various graphics to post on social media throughout the week; working with CPD …
The week of April 14-20, 2019 is a week to celebrate YOU and all that you accomplish each and every day. It …
We are celebrating National Telecommunicators Week as “Through the Decades”! This week we will go through the 1940’s-2000’s with games and activities …
This year we are celebrating our heroes with a super hero theme. We have a week planned of lots of games, activities …
Our communication center has gotten better every year at celebrating this week! Themed days, from Viva La 911, to Luaus! Our …
OPCD celebrates NPSTW just like New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras!! Party, party, party! We have themed days like Nerd Day. We also …
Myself and co-supervisor Maura Maschinski have created a list of quizzes and contest that started on February 3rd. Contest includes perfect attendance …
We had a fun filled week! We played Telecommunicator Bingo, Jelly Bean count and ” How well do you know your co-worker? …
West Chester is singing the praises of its unsung heroes this week during National Public Safety Telecomunnicators Week (NPSTW). NPSTW is celebrated …
This year we celebrated with an all new dedication video. The video was full of “thank you’s” and gratitude from fellow airport …
We had a theme week for our center which included: Crazy Hat/Hair Day, Decade Day, Hippie Day, Beach Day, Cowboy/Farmer Day, Patriotic …
We have put a lot of work into the week and have made it very successful. This week has been a theme …
This year we did a make your own trail mix bar! We bought trail mix favorites by the pound at a local …
Our week is jam packed to celebrate the hard work all of our dispatchers put in! Monday our Admin staff provided breakfast! …
We have a week long celebration of our staff. Each day is sponsored by a different group within the Sheriff’s office from …
Thought I would just send you the poem that I wrote for this week. You can see it on FB by this …
Here is a nice piece done on dispatchers for NPSTW 2018
From April 8 to 14, our Public Safety Communications Center will celebrate with themed dress attire, a window decorating competition, Ding Awards, …
In support of National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, I posted the following on our Facebook page. Today, April 8, 2018 begins National …
The Emergency Communications Center at the Polk County Sheriff’s Office celebrates PSTW every year and this year is no different. The enclosed …
This is how Jefferson Co. E-911 will be celebrating and our memo that we sent out: Jefferson Co. E-911 is please to …
Sweets Day, Meal Day, and Casual Dress Day to wear 911 T-shirts jeans and sneakers. Color your Tiki mask and Hawaiian shirt …
Our County Commissioners signed a proclamation at their last meeting. Also, I will be bringing in Ice Cream and Sundae toppings (chocolate/butterscotch …
Each team (T1Days, T1Nights, T2Days, T2Nights) are making large window decorations telling the story of the history of each agency we are …
Klamath 911 is the primary PSAP for Klamath County, Oregon. We dispatch for about 30 different Police, Fire and EMS agencies. I …
“911 your calls recorded, how may we help you?” Too calmly: “My baby’s not breathing, can you help me?”
I was a dispatcher for 20 years and we hardly ever received any recognition. So when I was recently hired as the …
On the night of Oct 21st 2017, a 420,000 square-foot facility known locally as the Ames Plant caught fire in the city …
My first ever 911 call was in July of 2000 on the graveyard shift. A female called saying that someone trying to …
This year both myself and my Director are new to our positions and have come from the Dispatch floor. We decided to …
Every day we have a local business provide breakfast, lunch or dinner to our staff. We play the 911 Bingo, local businesses …
Here at Fort Collins 911, we take NPSTW celebrations to a new level! Every year, members of our Rewards and Recognition Committee …
My story is not about me, but about one of our amazing dispatchers, Trinity University Police Department Telecommunicator, Monica Nava. She has …
We honor our Emergency Telecommunications Officers every year. We have been having an Annual Awards Night for a number of years now. …
NPSTW 2017 started out as an agency wide celebration and recognition of Suffield’s three (3) full-time and two (2) part-time Public Safety …
Among other things, the best thing that our administration did was a surprise makeover of our break room. They brought in a …
In recognition of National Public Safety Communications Week, the OCSO gathered donations from deputies and friends to fund a cook out for …
My dispatchers got together and picked 7 differently themed days. So far we have had superhero day, sports team day, 80’s day …
This.Is.Dispatch Dare to listen in to experience a day in the life of a 9-1-1 dispatcher. You never know what's waiting for …
Public safety personnel from our Police Department, Sheriff’s Office and Fire and Rescue Department take a moment to say thanks to the …
Many years ago I was working the 3pm to 11pm shift on December 31st. I got a call around 11 pm from a …
I started my career in 1978, working for the Casper, WY, Police Department. I hadn’t been there long when I took a …
Many years ago I started this journey, a journey to become an underappreciated seldom seen very important part of emergency services. I …
I grew up in a small town (Ionia) near here. I watched Emergency on TV when I was young, but never thought …
I started my career with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in 1993 as an emergency communications officer. I worked my way through call …
One of the recurring themes I’ve heard from fellow call takers and dispatchers is nobody says thank you for the work that …
NTW is one of my favorite weeks of the year. I have been organizing NTW for a few years now. Our Assistant …
It was a slow weekend morning in the tiny suburban city that I used to work for. You were my first and …
See the Austin Police Department’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter sites for a recruiting project we are working on. We just started a …
When you work with a group of officers, especially if you tend to take the same shift rotation after rotation, you become …
Proclamations, theme weeks, no-uniform days, cook-offs … there are so many ways to make the week special. Use the form below or add …
It was not “my officer” but his cries for help pierced my soul just the same. “I have been shot!” are four …
I began my life venture on the private side of Public Safety for a gated community. We were sworn officer, first responder, …
Early in my career, probably in 2004 or so I received a call from a man who lived in one of our …
At approximately 1300 on June 7, 2016 we received a phone call from a very distressed young man who, along with two …
On June 2, 2016 the U.S. Air Force Academy was hosting the U.S. President for the 2016 commencement exercise and the Air …
I was working day shift on Thursday August 4, 2016 at the Call Taker position for the Wood County Central Communications Center …
On December 20, 2016 at 10:15 a.m., Dispatcher Catie Guzman was on duty in the Communications Center for the University at Buffalo …
I have had the pleasure of being a 911 dispatcher for police, fire and rescue for a little over ten years. I …
In May of 2012, I started my career as a 911 Telecommunicator. When I walked into the police department on the morning …
What means the most to me about being a Telecommunicator? I have thought and pondered this question since it was first posted, …
I have been working for our agency for 28 years. I started part time and worked my way to Director in 6 …
September 11 2001, I sat and watched as our world changed as well as my view of the world, the blinders were …
It was 0715 on my last night shift right before I was getting off at 0730 of my last shift for 4 …
January 5, 2016, started out like any other day shift. Day was busy with calls coming in asking for every division within …
I talked to you while you were home alone having a heart attack and couldn’t breathe. You quit talking to me before …
I was on duty when a call came in from a tower that was not in our jurisdiction. I answered the phone …
This occurred more than a decade ago. I received a call from a frightened, distraught woman. She purchased a pair of shoes …
My name is Melissa and I am proud to say that I have served in Public Safety for 22 years. Some good …
I started my career as a 911 dispatcher my freshman year of college in 2010. At the time it was just a …
I have been a communications officer for almost 12 years. I began at a local sheriff’s office and then transferred over to …
So many of the stories over the years you think you will remember, just seem to blend into each other because what …
It was a mid-December evening, around dinner time, when I answered a 911 call. Never knowing what’s going to be on the …
On April 13, 2016, United States Representative Norma Torres (35th Dist. Calif.), herself a 9-1-1 dispatcher before entering politics, introduced a resolution on National Public …
This month, more than 300 newspapers have written about NPSTW and the recognition due public safety telecommunicators for their demanding and generally …
Since I became your APCO president in August 2015, I have been talking about the importance of WE and I can’t think …
(Recording of a 9-1-1 call in which a dispatcher guided a husband through CPR on his wife, who had collapsed.) I can’t …
Every year during the second week of April, the telecommunications personnel in the public safety community, are honored. This week-long event, initially …
Many agencies choose to celebrate NPSTW with dress themes for different days during the week. Here are some of their ideas from …
Comm centers across the country take the opportunity during NPSTW to recognize outstanding employees. Some have banquets and bestow awards, while others take a more casual …
As a public safety telecommunicator, you’ve heard it all. Now we want the rest of the world to hear about you. For …
So you want to celebrate public safety telecommunicators week, but you don’t have any designated funds? Here are some creative low/no cost …
Each year, the second full week of April is dedicated to the men and women who serve as public safety telecommunicators. Although …
In addition to offering an opportunity for celebration and recognition within your agencies, NPSTW is the perfect time to reach out to …
© 2019 APCO International
