April 8th - April 14th, 2012
National Public Safety - 911 - Telecommunicators Week
Each year, the second full week of April is dedicated to the men and women who serve as public safety telecommunicators. It was first conceived by Patricia Anderson of the Contra Costa County (Calif.) Sheriff's Office in 1981 and was observed only at that agency for three years. Members of the Virginia and North Carolina chapters of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) became involved in the mid-1980s. By the early 1990s, the national APCO organization convinced Congress of the need for a formal proclamation. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced what became Resolution 284 to create "National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week." According to Congressional procedure, it was introduced twice more in 1993 and 1994, and then became permanent, without the need for yearly introduction.
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four
Joint Resolution
To designate the week beginning April 11, 1994,
as
‘‘National Public Safety
Telecommunicators Week’’.
Whereas over one-half million dedicated men and women are engaged in the operation of emergency response systems for Federal, State, and local governmental entities throughout the United States;
Whereas these individuals are responsible for responding to the telephone calls of the general public for police, fire and emergency medical assistance and for dispatching such assistance to help save the lives and property of our citizens;
Whereas such calls include not only police, fire and emergency medical service calls but those governmental communications related to forestry and conservation operations, highway safety
and maintenance activities, and all of the other operations which modern governmental agencies must conduct; and
Whereas America’s public safety telecommunicators daily serve the public in countless ways without due recognition by the beneficiariesof their services:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the weekbeginning April 11, 1994, is hereby designated as ‘‘National Public
Safety Telecommunicators Week’’. The President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe that week with appropriate ceremonies
and activities.
Manatee County Government
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