Posts From APCO International
#TeammatesInAction: Tiffany Wayland, City of Newport News, Virginia
April 24, 2020On July 8, 2019, CTO Tiffany Wayland began her shift for the City of Newport News, VA, assigned to the Central radio. What she didn’t know is that this day that started “normal” was getting ready to drastically change.
Read full articleNorth Shore Regional 911 Center Receives APCO Agency Training Program Certification
April 17, 2020North Shore Regional 911 Center, MA, has received Agency Training Program Certification, a Project 33® Initiative, from the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International.
Read full articlePresident’s Channel: COVID-19
April 9, 2020The APCO Executive Committee would like to extend to each of you our thoughts and prayers during this trying time. It is astonishing how this pandemic has disrupted the normalcy of life, not just professionally but also personally.
Read full articleAPCO Files a Project Initiation and Seeks Work Group Members to Revise the Standard for Telecommunicator Emergency Response Taskforce (TERT) Deployment
April 9, 2020APCO International has filed a Project Initiation with ANSI and has issued a call for participation for work group members to participate in the revision of the APCO Standard for Telecommunicator Emergency Response Taskforce (TERT) Deployment.
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 articleSilent Key: Bradford S. Smith
April 9, 2020Deputy Fire Chief Bradford S. Smith, a senior member of APCO International and longstanding member of the Atlantic APCO Chapter,…
Read full articleCherokee County E 9-1-1 Receives APCO Agency Training Program Certification
April 3, 2020Cherokee County E 9-1-1, GA, has received Agency Training Program Certification, a Project 33® Initiative, from the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International.
Read full articleYoung Professional Spotlight: Whitney Wilson, Roswell Police Department
March 27, 2020The APCO Young Professionals Taskforce is proud to recognize Whitney Wilson as this quarter’s young professional. Wilson is a Senior…
Read full articleAPCO Statement on the CSRIC “Report on the Current State of Interoperability in the Nation’s 911 Systems”
March 17, 2020The Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) VII adopted a “Report on the Current State of Interoperability in the Nation’s 911 Systems.”
Read full articleBayside Communications Center Receives APCO Agency Training Program Certification
March 13, 2020Alexandria, VA – Bayside Communications Center, WI, has received Agency Training Program Certification, a Project 33 Initiative, from the Association of…
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