Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International
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The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO) was founded in 1935 and is the world's largest organization dedicated to public safety
telecommunication
s.
APCO has developed several standards that bear its name. For example APCO-16
, APCO-25, and the APCO phonetic alphabet
are all widely used.
Public Safety
Public safety involves the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety of the general public from significant danger, injury/harm, or damage, such as crimes or disasters .-See also:* By nation...
telecommunication
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
s.
APCO has developed several standards that bear its name. For example APCO-16
APCO-16
Project 16 or APCO Project 16 was a standard development effort started in the 1970s by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International , a trade association of mostly police and fire service providers...
, APCO-25, and the APCO phonetic alphabet
LAPD phonetic alphabet
The LAPD phonetic alphabet is a spelling alphabet, similar to the ICAO spelling alphabet, that is used by the Los Angeles Police Department and other local and state law enforcement agencies across the state of California and elsewhere in the United States...
are all widely used.
External links
- http://www.apcointl.org/ - official site
- APCO Project 25 Public Safety Standards Overview