Sheriff Mike Robinson asks the residents of Washington County to join him in celebrating National Public Safety Telecommunications Week.
The hard-working Communications Operators are generally the first people that citizens seeking assistance from your sheriff’s department speak to.
The men & women “behind the mike” perform a number of crucial tasks for the Sheriff’s Office. In addition to taking both emergency and non-emergency calls from the public, they dispatch officers from both the Sheriff’s Department as well as the Blair Police and the five fire & rescue departments in our county.
Our Communications Officers are the ultimate multi-taskers! They are often talking on the phone to a citizen while at the same time, dispatching the appropriate agency(s) to handle the call-for-service.
Many of our operators are certified Emergency Medical Dispatchers. This gives them the training to provide potentially life-saving instructions to 911 callers on what to do until the first responder arrives.
They are trained to remain calm even when chaos is swirling all around them.
Join us in thanking the hard-working women & men that serve our county as Communications Officers during Public Safety Telecommunications Week!
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