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2020 National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week

Will be observed April 12-18, 2020

April 1, 2020 | 2 min reading time

This article is 5 years old. It was published on April 1, 2020.

Public Safety telecommunicaators (PSTs) are awesome all the time, but never more so than during a disaster. The current situation with COVID-19 is a classic example. While most people are staying home and/or teleworking, PSTs are going to work, putting the community first. Some emergency communications centers are asking their staff to sleep, eat, work and essentially live at their comm center for an undetermined time.

It's a tough time for celebrating National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (Apil 12-18, 2020), but then again, it's the perfect time because public safety telecommunicators are rising to the challenge and doing what they do best. This year, the usual rewards and celebratory parties will have to be postponed, but our public safety telecommunicators still deserve to be recognized, respected -- and might even deserve a cape!

Thank you always to the public safety telecommunicators and all first responders who are on the front lines, still working and protecting our communities.

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