DISPATCHING THE CALL New Hires in the Communications Unit
Annelese Damoff
Magen Englett
Mary Louise Fitzgerald
The Mobile Police Department Communications Unit welcomes its recent new hires. Five public safety dispatchers have completed their three weeks long new hire class and the weeklong Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) class, in addition to becoming Alabama Criminal Justice Information System (ACJIS) certified. They are all super smart and super excited with their new career choice. We are thrilled to have them! They have worked so hard Christopher Lunsford Jr. Jessica Smith and are already showing great department. She also thanks Lifelines promise in becoming awesome public safety Counseling Services, which the public safety dispatchers. Their extensive training will dispatchers work closely with on a regular continue to take place over the next 11 months. basis. RCO Curd gives a huge shout-out to It consists of call taking, radio training and PD Lieutenant Leland Terrell, Sergeant Paul Main operations. Workman and Officer Brad Penton who showed them an amazing time at the range as RCO Coleen Tittle Curd said that she’s well as Commander Kevin Levy for allowing expecting great things from them. Curd thanks them to see how Cyber works in person. RCO all the speakers who took time out of their Curd stated they have all helped make the new busy schedules to educate the new hires on the class a huge success. various positions throughout the police O N E S H I F T M AG A Z I N E - 9
