How Are You Celebrating?
It’s that time of year again! Use the form below or add a comment to tell us how you celebrate NPSTW.
St. Louis County Police Bureau of Communications Is 2019 Winner
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 centers were asked to share tributes to their work teams on the npstw.org website. Emergency …
NTW 2019
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 …
Wood / Wirt County 911
Today we had a special guest of honor who was given a 911 life saving award, David Lee Molsey III, age three, who, on December 31st 2018, made a call to the Wood/Wirt County 911 center regarding a medical emergency relating to his mother. David, who outside of his mother, …
Harford County Department of Emergency Services
On August 18, 2017, Harford County, Md. was being inundated with severe lightning storms. One of our evening shift calltakers was taking a 911 call when they felt a shock through their headset, causing her to scream. Two dispatchers noticed sparks coming off the corner of our building and notified …
Week-Long Plan to Acknowledge Amazing 911 Call Takers and Dispatchers
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 …
University at Buffalo Police Dispatch
Over the past few years all of our Dispatchers have completed Crisis Intervention Team training for dispatchers.
Dinwiddie Fire & EMS 911
How many localities can say they started a pursuit with a military tanker?
FHP Tallahassee Regional Communications Center
I would like to congratulate my coworkers for always giving 110%.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office
We love our jobs and our dispatcher family. We love to help our deputies and the citizens of our county …
El Paso Regional Communications Center (EPRCC)
This week we celebrate not only National Telecommunicators Week, but also the life of Police Dispatcher Margie Garcia whom we tragically lost on April 13, 2019, as the result of a motor vehicle accident.
Jacksonville Fire Rescue
No matter what has happened, who’s aggravated at who, or what’s warming up in the microwave the instant something happens that is not a “normal” sounding call we all hunker down.
New River Valley Emergency Communications Regional Authority
We are a recently consolidated center in Montgomery County, Virginia. We dispatch 4 law enforcement agencies and 11 fire and rescue agencies.
New Hanover County 911
Our main center was damaged In Hurricane Florence. My team has adjusted to working in a much smaller space and we still handle emergency calls with professionalism.
Portland Bureau of Emergency Communications
First – thank you ALL, a tremendous collaboration of absolutely amazing people, in all parts. You are your community’s unsung heroes.
