Marble Falls honors first line responders
GLYNIS CRAWFORD SMITH/THE HIGHLANDER
At the proclamation of April 10-16 Public Safety Telecommunicators Week in the City of Marble Falls, Mayor John Packer, center, recognizes the Emergency Communications Division of the Marble Falls Police Department. Communications officers, from left, are manager Stacy Baker Jack Pettit, Katie Mein, Dawn Thrane, (Packer), Kathy Nasato, Andrea Terry, Robin Bergman and Matt Barton. Not pictured, but on duty, are Natasha Sauer and Melanie Boucher.
GLYNIS CRAWFORD SMITH
THE HIGHLANDER
This is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (April 10-16) and the City of Marble Falls is recognizing the staff that carries out the work here.
At the April 5 meeting of the Marble Falls City Council, Mayor John Packer, formally proclaimed recognition of the week and encouraged citizens to congratulate and recognize the telecommunicators of the Marble Falls Police Department as the city's first first responders.
He said, “the Emergency Communications Division of the Marble Falls Police Department are committed to providing high-quality emergency communications to the citizens of the City of Marble Falls. The city recognizes the professional and unending service of the Telecommunicators who answer 9-1-1 and non-emergency calls on a daily basis
Telecommunicators are the link between people calling for help in an emergency situation and the emergency response agencies who arrive on the scene.”
Packer's proclamation called telecommunicators are the “true backbone of the 9-1-1 system.”
The team of communications officers that operates under the direction of Police Chief Mark Whitacre and Communications Manager Stacy Baker includes Natasha Sauer, Melanie Boucher, Jack Pettit, Katie Mein, Dawn Thrane, Kathy Nasato, Andrea Terry, Robin Bergman and Matt Barton.
