DOCJT Public Safety Dispatch Academy Class 129 Graduates

Twenty-four law enforcement dispatchers graduated Friday, November 22, 2019, from the Public Safety Dispatch Academy at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training.

The graduates hail from communications centers across the state and comprise DOCJT’s 129th telecommunications academy class, which first began in 1999.

The students graduating from the Public Safety Dispatch Academy represent the successful completion of a highly structured and comprehensive curriculum. The five weeks of training consisted of 205 hours of academy instruction to satisfy mandated training requirements.

Major training areas included identifying the role and responsibilities of the dispatcher, correct phone and radio procedures, handling emergency and non-emergency calls for service, emergency medical dispatch protocols and use of the state and national criminal databases.

This class included seven trainees of distinction. To earn this recognition, a student must not fail any tested area, not receive any disciplinary action, earn an evaluation rating of acceptable in every observed category and score an average of 95 percent or higher on all academic tests. Students who achieve this distinction are given a special academy pin to wear on their uniforms.

Additionally, Hopkinsville Police Dispatcher Sarah Adel Carson received the academic achievement award. Dispatch basic training is mandatory for any sworn or civilian employee who will dispatch law enforcement officers by radio at a Criminal Justice Information Systems agency. DOCJT also provides in-service and leadership training for Kentucky public safety dispatchers and law enforcement officers.

DOCJT is a state agency located on Eastern Kentucky University’s campus. The agency is the first in the nation to be accredited under the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies’ public safety training program designation. DOCJT also earned accreditation through the International Association for Continuing Education and Training in 2013.

Class 129 graduates and their agencies are:

Destiny Anderson
Bluegrass 911 Central Communications 

Sylvia A. Black
Paris Police Department

Erica Vilmita Blake
Carrollton Police Department

Samantha J. Burdine
Pulaski County 911 Center

 Sarah Adel Carson
Hopkinsville Police Department
(Trainee of Distinction)

Penny Doyle
Bracken County 911

McKenzie Paige Duncan
Logan County E.C.C.

Dakota Annie Noel Farrington
Georgetown Police Department

Kathaleen G. Fraley
Providence 911 Dispatch
(Trainee of Distinction)

Deanna L. Frizzell
McLean County Sheriff’s Office

Rabon Curtis Goble
Martin County 911
(Trainee of Distinction)

Casey M. Guidi
Whitley County Communications
(Trainee of Distinction)

Brent E. Hughes
Paintsville/Johnson County 911

Charles J. Mahan
Jessamine County E-911
(Trainee of Distinction)

Brianna Marshall
Shelby County 911

Tori Lee McDonald
Logan County E.C.C.

Katie Oliver
Burkesville Police Department

Michael Todd Ritchie
Hazard Police Department

Samuel Shoup
Boone County Public Safety Center
(Trainee of Distinction)

Seth Stanley
Carter County 911

Lindsey Kathryn Swisher Steward
Jessamine County E-911 

Gina L. Vergason
Hancock County 911

Shelby Raye Wallace
Morehead State University Police Department

Anne Clinton Wooster
Lexington Enhanced 911
(Trainee of Distinction)