Who Are We?

This web site was created to serve as a comprehensive resource site for news and information about All Hazard Incident Dispatchers, Incident Dispatch Teams, Tactical Dispatch Teams – tactical fire, law enforcement or medical dispatchers trained, certified, and qualified to respond into the field to support emergency management at an incident command post.

Having a dispatcher on scene allows the Incident Commander to concentrate on command decisions without being tied to the umbilical cord of his/her radio.  The dispatcher handles communications in and out of the incident, relaying command decisions to the IC, while also maintaining resource and situation status and incident documentation.  The concept of Incident Dispatcher Teams integrates the dispatcher's unique skills of multi-tasking, attention to detail, hearing-and-repeating information accurately, right into the command post. 

As we continue to build and enhance this web site, we will focus on providing information on how to justify and develop an Incident or Tactical Dispatch Team to support your local fire or law enforcement agency, and we’ll look at agencies that maintain and deploy IDTs and TDTs and what lessons they have learned that can benefit other agencies.  We’ll describe what kind of training is needed to certify and qualify field communications teams and how to integrate these dispatchers into the field environment.  We’ll share after-action reports and maintain an archive of articles on the subject of field communications teams. 

Thanks again for visiting our website. We welcome your comments and suggestions.