{"id":28276,"date":"2024-04-08T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T19:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/national-public-safety-telecommunications-week-to-honor-dispatchers\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T19:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T19:28:29","slug":"national-public-safety-telecommunications-week-to-honor-dispatchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/national-public-safety-telecommunications-week-to-honor-dispatchers\/","title":{"rendered":"National Public Safety Telecommunications week to honor dispatchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2454313a-1ba2-522a-b1cd-e3b10555b02f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Emergency dispatchers will be recognized April 14-20 during National Public Safety Telecommunications week.<\/p>\n<p>The week was launched in 1981, and was officially approved by Congress and President Bill Clinton in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven full-time and one part-time dispatchers, one trainee and the dispatch supervisor work in the Cortez Police Department, but they don\u2019t just monitor police calls.<\/p>\n<p>The dispatchers also answer calls for the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Mancos Marshal\u2019s Office, Southwest Ambulance\/EMS, West Fork Volunteer Fire Department, and the Cortez, Lewis-Arriola, Pleasant View, Dolores, Rico, and Mancos fire protection districts. They also work part-time and after hours at Mesa Verde National Park and Dolores County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Montezuma County dispatchers answered about 60,000 calls, or about 165 per day, according to a dispatch employee. The employee requested that he not be identified because employees sometimes receive offensive personal phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>Summers tend to be busier because of outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em id=\"emphasis-891c4232d5c25bf58c80f2118edc4dbf\">Business<\/em> <em id=\"emphasis-f25066f1b0e6b6c14c3ade306d80d685\">Insider<\/em>, dispatchers have one of the most stressful jobs in the United States. Responding to more than 240 million calls each year, they score a 98 out of 100 in stress tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Dispatchers are on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week, often in life-or-death circumstances. Many dispatchers suffer from critical incident stress syndrome, which has similar symptoms to post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-d737ce88d09bbbd5ab613fe3f173b66a\">This article was reposted April 9 to remove a photo of the dispatch center provided by Kelly Codner, public information officer for the Cortez Police Department, and to remove quotations from an unnamed source.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>honoring dispatchers takes place in mid-April each year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,21,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-28276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-community","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28276"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=28276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}