Course Category | Virtual Academy

Overview

Discuss what questions to ask and in what order to be able to provide responders with the most accurate and timely information you can provide.

Course Length: 3 Minutes

Meet your Instructor

Leslie Whitham, ENP

Expertise:

Leslie has over 600 hours of continuing education as it relates to 9 ‐ 1 ‐ 1. She has also served as a Senior Instructor for a nationally ‐ recognized dispatch training company, providing in ‐ person, online, and recorded training segments for Telecommunicators.

Leslie Whitham, ENP has worked in the public safety field for more than 31 years. Leslie is a longtime supervisor and instructor who values ongoing professional and personal development with a belief in the importance of camaraderie amongst 9 ‐ 1 ‐ 1 professionals.Leslie has been involved with communications since 1991, starting her career as a Reserve Police Officer. She became a Public Safety Dispatcher in 1992 when her agency opened its own communications center. Leslie was responsible for both prioritizing/routing a high volume of emergency and non ‐ emergency calls through a CAD system as well as working with incoming dispatchers to complete the department’s training program. After demonstrating her ability to train dispatchers, Leslie was promoted to Public Safety Dispatch Supervisor, supervising law ‐ enforcement telecommunicators in support of the department’s strategic vision. In 2021, Leslie left the public sector to take on the role of Training and Engagement Manager with RapidSOS, a technology company focused on providing ECC's across the country with access to life ‐ saving digital data.