Local dispatcher gets statewide award

13 years later, it seems to be working out. Last week, Lindsey received the prestigious Public Safety Communications Director of the Year Award from Idaho’s Association of Public Safety Communications Officials. A Priest River High School graduate, Lindsey attended North Idaho College and Spokane’s Apollo College. It was there she studied to become a police officer, before a knee injury led her to change fields. Then, on a whim, she applied for a local dispatching job and has worked her way up the ranks, earning the title of operations manager, and most recently, APCO’s yearly award. Lindsey was surprised when she heard the news about the award a few days before the APCO’s yearly conference. “Never in a million years did I think I would ever get this award,” she said. She dedicated the award to her amazing staff who she said are “the heroes who make my job so easy.”