Workplace Bullying in the PSAP: A Toxic Issue to Address

Bullying is not a new phenomenon, in fact, founded in 2006, the month of October was dedicated to National Bullying Prevention by the PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center. Workplace bullying is also not a new phenomenon and one would think that in our high-stress environment of public safety, that we would be able to hire […]

Lateral Hires

It’s not unusual to advertise with the vision of hiring an experienced person into the public safety environment.  I’ve seen groups of police chiefs and PSAP Directors send verbal jabs at each other for stealing prized employees.  Most of the jabs were said in jest, some were not.  Why do employees leave one agency and […]