Media Advisory: TDOS Prepares to Announce Trooper & Dispatcher of the Year

 

NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee Highway Patrol will be honoring one Trooper and one Dispatcher from each of the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s 9 Districts, including Administration. The “Trooper of the Year” and “Dispatcher of the Year” ceremony will be held Thursday, April 22, 2010, at the Department of Safety’s Training Center.

 

WHO:    Safety Commissioner Dave Mitchell
             THP Colonel Mike Walker
             THP Command Staff
             Honored Troopers, Dispatchers, and their families

 

WHAT:  2009 Trooper & Dispatcher of the Year Ceremony

 

WHEN:   Thursday, April 22, 2010

              10:00 a.m.

 

WHERE: Department of Safety Training Center

              283 Stewarts Ferry Pike

 

These honored Troopers of the Year have gone above and beyond in serving the citizens of the State of Tennessee. There are currently 770 members of the THP who enforce motor vehicle, driver license, and criminal laws. The THP has branch offices located in each of Tennessee’s 95 counties including eight District Headquarters.

 

There are currently 84 THP Dispatchers and Supervisors that serve the Department of Safety statewide. Last year, these heroic individuals handled more than 347,000 calls for service. Because of their exemplary and necessary service, the second week of April is designated as National Public Safety Telecommunicators week and dedicated to the men and women who serve as telecommunicators, dispatchers, communication operators, radio control personnel and all others who utilize telephones, radios, computers and technical skills to provide support to law enforcement, fire services, emergency medical services and other governmental field personnel.