Re: 911:: Internal Newsletters

January 15, 2004

we had one once. Just up and disappeared, I don't know why. The feature I

liked is that everyone got to put in nominations for a column called " meet the

officer " . That was a neat way to get to know about the newer officers.

January 15, 2004

And if you do, are your newsletters print or email?

-----Original Message-----

From: Harrington

Do any departments do a weekly or bi-monthly internal " newsletter " or email

for those in dispatch?

January 15, 2004

Our Director tries to put out a newsletter but sometimes it comes out every

18 months when equipment changes is going on or about to change

January 17, 2004

The Oklahoma DPS Communications Recognition Committee does one about 4 to 6

times a year. It all depends upon content as to how often it is published.

Items include personal as well as professional. Example we lost 2 c.o.'s

last year and those copies obviously had a full inside page dedicated to the

employee, most are 4 pages, occasionally 6. They all include a column from the

Division Director who updates on policy and equipment, a section from the

Director for radio services on equipment upgrades etc. The last one had a 2

page

picture layout for the most recent manhunt in Oklahoma in which we had

approximately 15 tactical C.O.'s deployed as well. They also include Dilbert

the

Dispatcher, our cartoon strip about the trials and tribulations of a 20 year

dispatcher keeping up with new technology as well as daily frustrations we all

feel.

If you E mail me off list I can try to get a couple of past issues out to

show you what we are talking about.

We use our Training staff to submit training bulletins for issues in that

area, but we follow up in our newsletters

P-46

Ok DPS COMM

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