I answer business calls from 2 local police agencies that have their phones forwarded when they are out of the office. I answer cell 911 calls for the above listed areas, plus if if some skip into up and need to be transferred. I answer 911 calls for all of wyoming county, plus 6 out of county municipalities. I work for Wyoming County 911, some of my duties are the following: In my area, all we have is a centralized dispatch. A dispatcher 15 miles away isn't as helpful as one that you can walk into that you know and can speak to personally when you need to. My town and the neighboring town are one of the few that have their own dispatch centers left, everyone else has gone to the county communications center.Īdditionally, its nice to have a face when you walk to into the station. I know this does not happen in big cities like New York or Chicago but around here we are fighting. It might sound cheesy but I am mainly looking at it from the officer safety perspective. A central dispatch center is ideally nice, however a dispatcher that handles 6 towns will have a tougher time doing officer checks every few minutes (or it will not happen) and things will be much more "straight forward" than with a dispatcher handling the handful of units and being able to devote enough attention to each unit. This dispatcher also does Fire/ EMS for the town. I come from an area where each town has 2-3 officers on shift and they have their own dispatcher. If you need any further clarification to the situation please ask. I am trying to reach out to everyone to get input and see what people do ESPECIALLY if you are with a private ambulance company and have a central dispatch. My question to you is what are some opinions out there? Everyone says this system is broken and it needs fixed but no one seems to know the solution. Basically I feel like it is a logistical nightmare becuase we still have to track our trucks and so on and so forth. The county wants to go to a central dispatch because at this time they don't know what we are doing or the other private ambulance company is doing and there have been issues with coverages in both the city and the county but the call is always taken care of. Right now in the county we have the PD who has dispatchers(PD, Fire, and City 911) the SO who has dispatchers(Deputies, County Fire and County 911), a private ambulance company who dispatchers their trucks when they receive a 911 call from the city (currently the only one's they get unless we roll a call to them), and then our private ambulance company who has their own dispatchers and we also dispatch for the other two municipal EMS in the county. Alright friends, I got a situation for you and I am curious on opinions from everyone.
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