Borough of Seaside Heights, NJ Article XI Public Safety Telecommunications Operators

[Amended 12-19-2007 by Ord. No. 07-13[1]]

[1] Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Art. XI, Code Enforcement Officers, added 6-18-2003 by Ord. No. 03-16.

§ 166-34 Supervising Operator; Operator; Operator Trainee; part-time Operator; offices established.

There is hereby established the offices of Public Safety Telecommunications Operator, Supervising Public Safety Telecommunications Operator, Public Safety Telecommunications Operator Trainee and part-time Public Safety Telecommunications Operator within the Borough of Seaside Heights Police Department.

§ 166-35 Qualifications.

A. To be appointed as a Public Safety Telecommunications Operator (PSTO) for the Borough of Seaside Heights, an individual must possess one year of experience in work involving the receiving, transmitting and relaying of video display and/or radio messages and in the receiving, relaying and recording of complaints and requests for emergency assistance which shall have included the use of video display, data processing, automatic number identification, automatic location identification, switching equipment or other computer-oriented equipment.

B. No experience is needed to be appointed as a Public Safety Telecommunications Operator Trainee. The term for a Public Safety Telecommunications Operator Trainee shall be one year. After the one-year training period, a Public Safety Telecommunications Operator Trainee shall be eligible for promotion to PSTO. The inability of a Public Safety Telecommunications Operator Trainee to attain a level of performance warranting advancement after one year may be cause for separation.

§ 166-36 Duties.

A. The Supervising Public Safety Telecommunications Operator shall, under direction, supervise and work with a group of employees engaged in receiving and relaying radio messages to various vehicles and concerned personnel; supervise the work of a group of communications operators who are engaged in receiving and transmitting police, fire and other emergency alarms and requests for assistance through the uses of telephone, radio, computer terminal or other types of communications equipment; and shall do related work as required.

B. Public Safety Telecommunications Operators shall receive and relay radio messages to various vehicles and concerned personnel; operate a variety of communications equipment; and shall do related work as required.

C. Duties of a Public Safety Telecommunications Operator Trainee shall be the same as those of a Public Safety Telecommunications Operator.