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APCO Announces Final Approval of Two National Standards

May 6, 2021

APCO International received final approval from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) on April 8, 2021, for two American National Standards (ANS).

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Managing Trauma

May 6, 2021

What is a traumatic event? For telecommunicators, traumatic events can be anything. While not every call we take is traumatic, the cumulative toll of the job itself is. The effects of cumulative acute stress can be detrimental to our mental and physiological health.

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Public Safety Telecommunicators Help Find and Rescue Abducted Child

April 16, 2021

On January 15, 2020, at about 1:30 p.m. an 11-year-old girl was walking home from school. A man got out of a car and grabbed her. Witnesses called Springfield (MA) Emergency Communications (SEC).

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Public Safety Telecommunicators Help Locate Child Taken in Home Invasion

April 15, 2021

The five telecommunicators on duty banded together, dispatched field responders, broadcast lookouts, performed notifications, made NCIC entries, pinged cellphones, coordinated with investigators and communicated with area jurisdictions.

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Public Safety Telecommunicators Help Rescue Child Stolen by Non-Custodial Parent

April 14, 2021

On February 21, 2021, at 4:00 p.m. the Glendive (MT) 911 Communications Center sent a multi-state message from the Glendive Police requesting law enforcement agencies attempt to locate a child abducted by a non-custodial parent in a stolen vehicle possibly en route to California.

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Public Safety Telecommunicators Assist in Rescue of Kidnapped Child

April 13, 2021

Hamilton County (OH) Communications Officer Lisa Helm took a call from a frantic grandmother who uttered the words nobody wants to hear, “My grandson… He was just kidnapped.”

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Women in Public Safety Communications: Renee Gordon

April 8, 2021

Renee Gordon, Director, City of Alexandria, Virginia – Department of Emergency and Customer Communications, has been in public safety for over 30 years, 12  in emergency communications

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APCO International Announces Recipients of 2021 Leadership in Policy Awards

March 25, 2021

Alexandria, VA – The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International announces the recipients of its prestigious 2021 Public Safety…

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Women in Public Safety Communications: Jeryl Anderson

March 3, 2021

Jeryl Lynn Brown Anderson, Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator, Orange County Emergency Services, has worked for 36 years in the public safety communications profession.

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The Multitalented, Multitasking Public Safety Polymath

February 25, 2021

You have probably heard of Leonardo da Vinci, the 15th-century architect, artist, engineer, inventor and scientist. Leonardo da Vinci was a man of a great many talents, what one would refer to as a Renaissance man. Nowadays, this term has become interchangeable with the word polymath. Public safety telecommunicators can be the polymaths of public safety.

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