This week is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. A week set aside each year to honor the telecommunications personnel in the public safety community. Dispatcher Katelyn Sanders with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office tells KNIA/KRLS News what she likes most about being a dispatcher in Marion County is helping people. She says she takes a lot of different types of calls from emergent to non emergent but regardless of the type of call she loves helping people in their time of need. 

With COVID-19 affecting everyday life for every American, Sanders says her job isn’t really any more difficult than usual. She says for her it is just part of the job and thinks her coworkers will agree. She says things can be a little bit more difficult but things being difficult is part of the job. She says like everyone else, she is just ready for everything to be over and back to normal. 

National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week began in 1981 and was formally recognized in 1994 and is celebrated each year during the second full week of April. To hear the complete interview with Sanders, tune in to today’s Let’s Talk Knoxville.