Hot Topic: Mandated Minimum Hiring And Training Standards For Public Safety Dispatchers

Beginning July 1, 1997, all public safety dispatchers who receive requests for emergency aid by telephone (call takers) or radio, or who dispatch emergency aid resources by radio or other telecommunications devices must have completed a course of study approved by the State of Tennessee Public Safety Committee.

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