Police Dispatcher Wins Citizen of the Quarter Award

SAMANTHA MILLER NAMED CITIZEN OF QUARTER

At the last police committee meeting, dispatcher Samantha Miller was named citizen of the quarter (Q2- 2011).

Chief Press said that last April she had helped locate the family of a disoriented, elderly Ohio man (also deaf), stranded at the Pensacola airport, who was trying to get to his daughter's home in Fairhope (lost her address). Miller searched social networks and was ultimately able to locate his family here, Press said.

In May, when a female was found roaming the streets late at night, Miller was able to locate her out-of-state relatives; and help officers return her to her Fairhope family.

During a major power outage in June, though on duty alone, Sanders helped successfully coordinate the city employee response; and helped resolve the over 3,000 incoming calls.

Miller said she had only been here for 2 years but "had never worked in a city where people help each other so much . . . "

Miller: "I've never seen a city more willing to help . . . anybody . . . than here."

Comments

Anonymous said…
the little people should get more credit than they do.
Anonymous said…
She must be talking about some other town.