The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) and the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board (TECB) recognize the bravery, heroism and commitment to training by Tennessee’s emergency communicators on National First Responders Day on Thursday,October 28, 2021.
The TECB plays a crucial role in emergency communications by assisting Tennessee’s 100 emergency communications districts in the areas of management, operations and accountability.
In 2020, a state law required all emergency call takers and dispatchers to receive telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR) training and offer it when necessary to callers or bystanders. So far, 572 telecommunicators have completed the TECB’s T-CPR online training for a grand total of 1,707 hours of delivered instruction.