As an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited Standards Developer (ASD), APCO International is dedicated to ensuring public safety communications has a role in the development of standards that affect our industry. APCO’s standards development activities have a broad scope, ranging from the actual development of standards to the representation of public safety communications in other standards development areas.

APCO Announces Final Approval of Two Standards

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International received final approval from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) on November 18, 2022 for the following:

Copies of the standards are available at apcointl.org/services/standards/find-standards/

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APCO Standards Activities in Progress

The following standards are currently in development:

Operational Candidate ANS

  • Non 9-1-1 Call Processing and Dispatch
  • Supplemental Emergency Responder Recommendations
  • Career Progression Within the Public Safety ECC
  • Minimum Technical Requirements for Remote Support to Emergency Communication Center (ECC) Operations\

Technical Candidate ANS

  • Common Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) GIS Identifiers

Training Candidate ANS

  • Detecting Early Warning Symptoms of Stress in Public Safety Telecommunicators
  • Core Competencies and Minimum Training Requirements for Peer Critical Incident (or Crisis) Support Team
  • Minimum Training Standards for Public Safety Telecommunicators

Revisions to Current APCO ANS Standards

  • Multi-Functional Multi-Discipline CAD Minimum Functional Requirements
  • Wireless 9-1-1 Deployment and Management Effective Practices
  • Public Safety Communications Incident Handling Process
  • Minimum Training Standard for TTY/TDD Use in the Public (Reaffirmation in progress)
  • Standard for Telecommunicator Emergency Response Taskforce (TERT)

Questions and Suggestions

If you have any questions, suggestions, or need for specific standards, please submit them for APCO’s review to [email protected] or call the Standards Program Manager at (469) 424-7599.