Ekberg named 911 Liaison

Scott Ekberg has been selected for the position of 911 Liaison and he will begin his service to the 911 Coordinating Council on May 13, 2013.   Scott has extensive public safety experience in Kansas, including Director of the Barton County Communications Center, and he most recently was employed in the Kansas Office of Emergency Communications for the past four years.

 

Scott lives in Great Bend, Kansas and will continue to work out of the Adjutant General’s Department.  Scott will receive direction on Council related activities and programs from myself and our Committee Chairs. 

 

This collaboration between the Adjutant General’s Department and the 911 Coordinating Council will provide a cost-effective approach to staffing this position as well as to ensure continued coordination of 911 and public safety communications initiatives in Kansas.   I very much appreciate the willingness of the TAG and of Col. Stratmann in working with the Council to enhance our support services to Kansas PSAPs.

State of Kansas conducts needs assessment

The State of Kansas recently received a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women to identify training needs of criminal justice professionals in Kansas. The Governor’s Advisory Council for Domestic Violence Training will guide a domestic violence and sexual assault training project to provide trainings to criminal justice professionals in Kansas.

The Advisory Council is conducting a needs assessment survey to determine the training needs of communication specialists regarding the response to domestic violence.  

 

The survey will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. Please respond by May 30, 2013.

The Advisory Council will use the information you provide to update and expand previously developed curricula, best practices, and training materials. Additionally, training for criminal justice professionals will be held across Kansas using the updated materials.

Thank you in advance for providing this valuable information.

The survey is accessed via this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CommunicationsAssess

Kansas 9-1-1 Liaison position open

The Kansas 911 Coordinating Council in collaboration with the Kansas Adjutant General's Department has created a full time 911 Liaison position whose duties will include providing guidance and technical support to PSAPs in behalf of the Council; assist PSAPs and regional groups with planning and implementation of NG911 services, and provide support services to the Council and its committees. The successful candidate for this position should have extensive knowledge of public safety communications and enhanced 911 systems, and be a self-motivated, detail oriented person with good written and oral communication skills. The position will be located in the Adjutant General's Department and classified as a Planner II-911. This employee will receive task assignments and general direction from 911 Coordinating Council leaders as well as direct supervision by the assigned supervisor in the Adjutant General's Department.

Additional information upon the functions, requirements and compensation for this position are available at https://www.da.ks.gov/ps/pub/reqinfo.asp?id=174251, and a flyer is available in the Announcements section at www.ksapco.org.

April is National 9-1-1 Education Month

April is "National 9-1-1 Education" month, and April 14-20th is "National Telecommunicators Week".  The KSAPCO website at www.ksapco.org hosts links to the APCO Internation NPSTW site as well as the "9-1-1 Number to Know" site, both of which offer educational materials and ideas on how to educate our citizens and celebrate our dispatchers.

Let us know what your agency has planned to mark these events.

KCJIS Committee minutes

Minutes from the February and March KCJIS Committee Meeting have been posted on the KSAPCO website at www.ksapco.org.

Conference parking

Parking is free for anybody involved in our conference.  Parking is available across the street, east of the hotel, on Waco.  There is a covered walkway that will take you from the 2^nd floor of the parking garage to the 2^nd floor of the hotel and you can take the elevator down from there to access the lobby and meeting rooms.  You will have to take a ticket when you go into the parking garage but when leaving you’ll call the front desk from the speaker at the gate and tell them you are with APCO and they’ll raise the gate for you.

Shoulder pads?

Shoulder pads, miniskirts, leg warmers, huge earrings, fingerless gloves, parachute pants, Members Only jackets, stretch stirrup pants, and oversized tops hanging off the shoulder.  What do they have in common?  They are 80’s fabulousness!  Don’t miss out on the opportunity to strut your stuff in your best 80’s outfit at the 80’s Dance Party sponsored by Voice Products this Sunday, April 7^th, to kick off our Spring APCO Conference.  80’s dance music, DJ Cain, Voice Products, great food and drink – it just doesn’t get better than that!