Police Communications Dispatcher & Trainer
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
• Delivered informative details to law enforcement and other first responders in preparation for situations prior to arrival.• Assigned to the department’s Peer Support team since 2019, able to utilize training and skills to assist other employees or citizens in a time of need. • Boosted productivity by ensuring on-time emergency response and life support with zero service delivery errors.• Prioritized responses to public emergency and non-emergent calls to promptly dispatch police, fire and EMS while tracking data in real-time.• Demonstrated self-reliance by meeting and exceeding workflow needs.• Dispatched calls to relevant police, fire or medical response personnel depending on individual call situations.• Dispatched police, fire and EMS units to respond to emergent situations with established procedures.• Responsible for training new employees in 911/administrative line call-taking and/or police radio dispatching.• Designed the Communications Bureau’s first online training program, designed to streamline entry-level training for new hires in a positive, interactive way, via an online-classroom type setting at the student’s pace.• Built & launched the department’s TactiCall training program, an initiative to place new call-takers and dispatchers through a phone/radio simulator with live phone and radio traffic, in order to prepare them for on-the-job live training at the console.