Dispatcher Has Voice of Distinction

Allegheny County (Penn.) dispatcher Mike Jaworski has a distinctive voice, raspy from years of smoking and twangy from his Pittsburgh accent, as profiled in a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper story. Jaworski’s voice is known for, “its low-key casualness and intermittent excitability, such as when a chase across police zones has multiple officers checking in simultaneously: ‘One atta time! One atta time!’ He is perhaps the only dispatcher the officers occasionally call by name, a breach of protocol that supervisors frown upon but one that speaks to his years of service and the respect he has earned.” Read more about Jaworski’s technique and listen to him talk here.