We had a week-long celebration of NTW, each day had a different theme. The Division raffled at 65″ television to raise funds for the week’s events. Patrol provided food. The NTW Committee created 2019 NTW Facebook page where employees could post pictures and participate in various games, including a selfie …
In honor of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, the City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) is implementing a …
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 …
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