Code of Ethics

The Telecommunicator’s Code of Ethics was developed by the State Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.  New dispatchers are required to sign a document indicating they support and will abide by this code in the line of duty.

• As a telecommunicator I regard myself as a member of an important and honorable profession.
• I will recognize the positive relationship between good physical and mental conditioning and the performance of my job.
• I will perform my duty with efficiency to the best of my ability.
• My conduct and my performance of my duties will be accomplished in an honest manner, contributory to my fellow workers, and observant of the laws of the city, state and country.
• I will not, in the performance of my duty, work for unethical advantage or profit.
• I will recognize at all times in my duty that I am a public safety employee, and that ultimately I am responsible to the public.
• I will give the most efficient an impartial service of which I am capable at all times.
• I understand the importance of courtesy and will maintain it as my reference point in all my duties.
• I will regard my fellow telecommunicators with the same standards as I maintain myself.
• I share a reciprocal affinity an obligation with my fellow telecommunicators, my administration, and my agency.
• I will accept responsibility for my actions.