CLAYTON COUNTY RECOGNIZES NATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMMUNICATOR WEEK Each year, the second full week of April is dedicated to the men and women who serve as public safety telecommunicators. It was first conceived by Patricia Anderson of the Contra Costa County (Calif.) Sheriffs Office in 1981 and was observed only at that agency for three years. Members of the Virginia and North Carolina chapters of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) became involved in the mid-1980s. By the early 1990s, the national APCO organization convinced Congress of the need for a formal proclamation. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced what became H.J. Res. 284 to create National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week. According to Congressional procedure, it was introduced twice more in 1993 and 1994, and then became permanent, without the need for yearly introduction. The official name of the week when originally introduced in Congress in 1991 was National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. In the intervening years, it has become known by several other names, including National Public-Safety Telecommunications Week and International Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. On behalf of the members of the Sheriffs Office we want to thank our dispatch team for the outstanding job they do and also thank those that have retired from here for leading the way for the new ones. Our team is one of the best in the area and are the heart of the agency. Please, if you see one of our dispatchers, or talk to one, take time to thank them for the work they do each and everyday.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:03:48 +0000
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