NICE Announces 2010 PSAPs' Finest Award Winners

By Linda Haelsen, NICE Systems

NICE is pleased to announce the winners of its 2010 PSAPs' Finest Awards. The recipients of this year's awards are being unveiled today at the 76 th Annual APCO Conference and Expo in Houston, Texas. An awards presentation will take place in NICE's booth #731 at APCO today at 1:45pm. Now in its fifth year, NICE’s PSAPs’ Finest is an annual Public Safety awards program that recognizes top performers in PSAPs (Public Safety Answering Points) for their outstanding contributions to public safety communications. Each year, winners are selected in four categories.

The 2010 PSAPs' Finest Award recipients are:

An annual recognition program, NICE Systems' PSAPs' Finest Awards was first introduced in 2006. Individuals are nominated by their public safety peers and then evaluated based on their exemplary achievements, depth of knowledge, innovative thinking, involvement and years of service to public safety, as well as other key criteria. Winners are selected by a panel of judges from the Public Safety industry. The 2010 judging panel included: Christopher N. Tucker (Director, Huntsville-Madison County 9-1-1 Center, Huntsville, Alabama); Willima Banner-Tunis, ENP (9-1-1 System Operations Manager for the City of Dallas); Steve Souder (Director, Fairfax County, Virginia, Department of 9-1-1 / Public Safety Communications, and a former PSAPs’ Finest Director of the Year); and Charles C. Freeman, ENP (9-1-1 Systems Manager, Pinellas County Public Safety Services).

“With so many promising nominees, judging this year’s PSAPs’ Finest program was especially challenging,” said Charles C. Freeman, ENP, 9-1-1 Systems Manager for Pinellas County Public Safety Services. “There were many outstanding candidates. Among the winners selected by the judging panel were individuals with numerous accomplishments and many years of experience, who through their leadership, technical skills, problem solving abilities, and personal and professional sacrifices have made amazing contributions.”

For more information on the PSAPs' Finest Awards, including previous years' winners, please visit http://www.nice.com/PSAP/2010/ .

About NICE Systems
NICE Systems is the leading provider of Insight from Interactions solutions and value-added services, powered by advanced analytics of unstructured multimedia content – from telephony, web, radio and video communications. NICE’s solutions address the needs of the enterprise and security markets, enabling organizations to operate in an insightful and proactive manner, and take immediate action to improve business and operational performance and ensure safety and security. NICE has over 24,000 customers in more than 150 countries, including more than 80 of the Fortune 100 companies. More information is available at http://www.nice.com/.