NPSTW Enter to Win Winners!

Congratulations to the following three lucky contestants that each won an iPod Shuffle in this year’s National Public Safety Telecommunications Week Enter to Win Contest:

Lauri Gulbrand

Brown County Public Safety Communications (Wisc.)

Tasha Toppin

Town of Pam Beach (Fla.)

Jeff Horton

Tucson Airport Authority (Ariz.)

The Grand Prize Package that includes one full conference registration to the APCO Conference in Kansas City, August 3-7, 2008, airfare and hotel accommodation for one to the Kansas City conference goes to David Guibault, Greenfield Police Department (Mass.).

Thank you to everyone who participated - and please, post about your celebration and send me your pics! Ann russoa@apco911.org

Tell us about your celebration of National Public Safety Telecommunications Week!

The APCO Store has t-shirts, polos and caps that commemorate the 2008 National Public Safety Telecommunications week. Check it out!

We’ll be giving away an iPod Shuffle to three lucky individuals who register here.

We will also be giving away a Grand Prize that includes:

• one full conference registration to the APCO Conference in Kansas City, August 3-7, 2008
• airfare and hotel accommodation for one to the Kansas City conference

Deadline to enter is April 30.  Winners will be announced May 12; check back to this website for that announcement.

Spread the word to your public safety communications colleagues.  

Click here and enter to win!

Feature your communications center and public safety communications staff in a video honoring them, during national public safety telecommunications week. The telecommunicators featured in this video didn’t realize they were the stars. Consider creating a video of your communications center, your community and your community leaders, thanking your telecommunicators for their dedication. It can be as simple as some photos and video filmed from a digital camera, or as high-tech as your resources allow. Check out a video that DeSoto County (FL) Communications created.

Upload your video to www.youtube.com or www.vodpod.com, send the link to russoa@apco911.org and we’ll include your video on our site. 

If you have any questions or ideas about videos or honoring your telecommunications professionals, post them here!

This year’s telecomunicator appreciation gift is a keychain and window decal commemorating the 2008 National Public Safety Telecommunications Week. Bundled together for the cost of $1.50, this token of your appreciation for your public safety telecommunicators will help to instill pride in a job well done serving your community. Click here to order.

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International thanks all telecommunications personnel in the public safety community for your continued efforts to preserve the public’s safety. Although APCO International does all it can to honor our calltakers and dispatchers throughout the year, National Public Safety Telecommunications Week has been set aside so everyone can be made more aware of your hard work and dedication, which provide a vital link to the public safety services on which we have come to rely every day.

We encourage all of you to celebrate and honor yourselves, your co-workers, your bosses and your employees. Take the time this week to host a party, reach out to your local media and public officials, or launch an awards program. This newsletter will provide helpful tools and suggestions aimed at making National Public Safety Telecommunications Week 2008 a memorable one for you and your colleagues.

We would also like your input in the form of shared ideas and photos of your agency celebrations during this year’s festivities.

Thank you, again, for all the sacrifices you make to create a better and safer world for the public. Your commitment to your profession is appreciated by all of APCO International, the public safety communications community, and the citizens you serve.