Communications Division

Our Dispatch Center

All calls for service are processed from Communications. The Police Department currently employs eight (8) full time Communications Dispatchers.

Certified Communications Operators staff the center 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Their duties include, but are not limited to, answering all E-911 phone calls, answering the police and fire radios, and dispatching all police/fire and ambulance calls.

Dispatchers have been certified to provided pre-arrival medical instructions to people calling 911 for certain medical emergencies.

Communications Operators are civilian employees who are trained both at the State and Local level. All of our dispatchers have completed the State Telecommunications Training Program as well as in-house training and assessment.