by Ram Natraj | May 13, 2025 | Equature 911 Blog
The allegations were clear: the parents were being sued for half of their estate and half of their retirement income. The parents sat there, perplexed and shocked. Ten years ago, this would not have occurred; no court in the country—or in the world—would have...
by Cherie Bartram | Apr 8, 2025 | Dispatch Improvement, Equature 911 Blog
National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW) – the week set aside to honor those emergency dispatchers who have answered the calls. We don’t always think about the 911 heroes when the gentle April showers start falling, and we look forward to the May flowers...
by Kerry O'Connell | Mar 11, 2025 | Equature 911 Blog
When I was a 911 director, I sat in on many interviews for candidates wanting to be hired as dispatchers. One of the questions we always asked of them was “Why do you want to work here?” You could probably guess the most common answer to that question: “Because I want...
by Cherie Bartram | Feb 11, 2025 | Equature 911 Blog
You’ve dreamed about it. You’ve worked toward it. You understood that achieving it, meant that you needed to BE it, before actually having the title. Finally… You did everything right. You reached the highest level in your profession that you can achieve, the top rung...
by Kerry O'Connell | Jan 14, 2025 | Equature 911 Blog
It seems that we are inundated with wellness tips for dispatchers these days, and for good reason. Dispatchers prioritize work over their own health way too often. While it is an understandable affliction (after all, 911 can become an addiction that keeps us coming...
by Cherie Bartram | Dec 10, 2024 | Equature 911 Blog, PSAP
Bullying is not a new phenomenon, in fact, founded in 2006, the month of October was dedicated to National Bullying Prevention by the PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center. Workplace bullying is also not a new phenomenon and one would think that in our...
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