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.
Ace Ventura is a Dispatcher for Kosciusko County 911 Communications. One late Friday night he was working the console answer the calls of his community. What started out as a routine shift, turned into quite …
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.
We usually have a week of themed potlucks; small gifts & mementos given to each dispatcher to support and encourage the communication center in all the long hours being called in to cover overtime and …
As the 4th of July holiday was in full swing, 911 calls were flooding the center, it was evident that a public service announcement was needed to clarify what is considered a legitimate emergency! An …
In the murky depths of a secluded Florida swamp, the moon cast an eerie glow upon the still waters. The air was heavy with the scent of decay and anticipation, as if nature itself held …
This is the story of Bucky the Dispatch Deer and the Island of Misfits, located at a special communications center near you. The Island is full of communication officers from all walks of life, some …
“Dispatch and the Prisoner of Azkaban” centers around the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office and their life of being above jail book-in. Amidst the backdrop of escalating tensions within the dispatch center when inmates bang on …
It takes each person in a communications center to make the job work. Each perspective helps, every second matters, and all calls are important. This is just another day in the lives of our dispatchers. …
Plot Summary: In a small town four dispatchers were receiving strange calls of activity from an abandoned house. They came together unknowingly that they would have to solve the mystery, however in doing so they …
In this county, dispatch is viewed as a mysterious oracle. All knowing, but only ever heard and never seen. It has been said, anyone who visits The Unseen never come back. People say it’s because …
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?
They were promised a shiny new building to call home. They never realized what they would have to go through to get it .… It’s late February, all staff has been moved to a remote …
Plot Summary: “Dispatch Mavericks: Code Red Skies” takes us into the adrenaline-fueled world of the Westerville 9-1-1 dispatch center, where the dispatchers are the Top Guns of emergency response. Inspired by the iconic film “Top …
Ordinary LEGO Dispatchers who always follow the rules, are mistakenly – or is it correctly???- identified as special — extraordinary beings and the keys to saving the world. They find themselves drafted into a fellowship …
Sleepy little towns never imagine that they could be the site at which the end of the world begins. So when the undead begin their hostile takeover by first infecting the Georgetown Police Department, the …
Disclaimer: All of the names and places have been changed to protect the innocent. I mean, who cares? It’s just a romantic musical, right? Big John Johnson, the Sheriff of Josh County, Mississippi, has been …
Luz has been working MF Dispatch for 21 years, Deb for 17. Over the years there has been a lot of turnover, and now they are just trying to get through the days until they …
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