Five people were among 27 dispatchers from across Kentucky who graduated from the Department of Criminal Justice Training’s Public Safety Dispatch Academy on Friday.
Cameron Crawford of Meade County E911; Miranda Dowell of Breckinridge County 911; and Delanie Campbell of Elizabethtown Police Department; Hunter Mattingly of Hancock County 911 and Samuel Pennington of Grayson County Dispatch completed training and are ready to answer their community’s call for assistance.
Dispatch basic training is mandatory for any sworn or civilian employee who will dispatch law enforcement officers by radio at a Criminal Justice Information Systems agency. Graduates of the academy have successfully completed a highly structured and comprehensive curriculum to satisfy mandated training requirements. Over four weeks, the graduates received 164 hours of academy instruction to satisfy these requirements. Major training areas included identifying the role and responsibilities of the dispatcher, correct phone and radio procedures, handling emergency and nonemergency calls for service, using emergency medical dispatch protocols and using the state and national criminal databases.
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