Canada APCO Award

Abbotsford (BC, Canada) police dispatcher Tina Squire will receive the group’s Public Safety Communicator award during the joint APCO-NENA conference Oct. 1-4. She worked for the RCMP as a dispatcher and then joined Abbotsford, in the Vancouver area two years ago. “Tina was selected based on her outstanding skills as an emergency dispatcher over many years, including some very complicated calls such as the tanker spill in 2005 and a kidnapping earlier this year,” said police chief Ian Mackenzie.