Towns backing away from regional dispatch center A proposal to combine emergency dispatch operations for Danbury and four other communities is now generating skepticism from several of the potential participants, who are having second thoughts about whether any savings would outweigh the benefits of their current systems. Nineteen months ago, officials from Danbury, Bethel, Brookfield, Newtown and Ridgefield announced they were considering a plan to handle police, fire and ambulance calls from the five communities at a regional dispatch center in Danbury. Under the plan, first responders in each of the communities would have continued to answer calls within their own borders, but the task of dispatching them would fall to civilian employees working out of the emergency communication center on the third floor of the Main Street police station. Both Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra and Brookfield First Selectman Bill Davidson are concerned that regionalizing could result in "dark lobbies" in their communities -- the possibility that residents seeking emergency police assistance would find the stations unmanned if they went there in the middle of the night. "Having it right there at the police department, we were able to coordinate with the emergency operations center and the public works department, and that was an extreme advantage," Knickerbocker said.
Towns Backing Away From Regional Dispatch Center
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