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NCMEC Shares Successful Stories of Partnership With ECCs
April 10, 2023To honor public safety telecommunicators during NPSTW 2023, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) shared these successes….
Read full articlePublic Safety Telecommunicators Help Find and Rescue Abducted Child
April 16, 2021On 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).
Read full articlePublic Safety Telecommunicators Help Locate Child Taken in Home Invasion
April 15, 2021The 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.
Read full articlePublic Safety Telecommunicators Help Rescue Child Stolen by Non-Custodial Parent
April 14, 2021On 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.
Read full articlePublic Safety Telecommunicators Assist in Rescue of Kidnapped Child
April 13, 2021Hamilton 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.”
Read full articleAPCO Announces Contest for 2021 Telecommunicator Week
February 5, 2021APCO International announced the official kickoff of APCO’s National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW) contest “Who is YOUR public safety superhero?”
Read full articleECCs Will Postpone, Alter, Celebrate NPSTW 2020
April 9, 2020Next week, April 12-18, is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, and emergency communications centers are divided about how or whether…
Read full articleAPCO International Announces NPSTW 2019 Contest Winner
May 1, 2019APCO 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.
Read full articleCelebrity Chef and TV Personality Rachael Ray Recognizes Telecommunicators on Her Show
May 1, 2019Laurie Perkins Lewis, Waterford Emergency Communications Center, CT, wrote a letter to the Rachael Ray Show about National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week (NPSTW) and in particular about her comm center and the amazing work of her team in hopes to get NPSTW recognized on a very public platform.
Read full articleNational Week Honoring Emergency Telecommunicators Begins Sunday
April 11, 2019This Sunday, April 14, 2019, marks the beginning of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, a week that gives communities and emergency communications centers a chance to honor those who help save lives in times of personal or national crisis.
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