A while ago, the county kinda stopped using "post numbers" and switched to the "station numbers" that represent all the communities. That is why 27 Charlie became 1 Adam and the 72 cars became 45 Adam and Baker and the airports started IDing as "Airport" Also, when the town of Ossining disbanded the cars became 13 Adam and Baker.
I think you are right about the overnight dispatching. For two days now at about 7:40 I hear the dispatcher call 39 B and 39 Sgt and tell them to "switch back to your frequency" Are there any Night owls who can confirm that this is Tuckahoe? I think it is a coincidence that the first municipality to do this happens to have the same station number as the old airport post number as yes, the Airport usually does have a Sgt. assigned to it all the time.
I hope this a trend that continues. If these small departments aren't willing to merge to save cost the least they can do is have the county or a nearby larger department take over dispatch at night. There is a list of small departments that should follow this model. They don't necessarily have to have the county do it. Irvington and Elmsford can use Greenburg, Pleasantville and Sleepy Hollow can use Mt Pleasant, etc. I mean Buchanan has their own department, but at least they are smart enough to use Peekskill for dispatch. To me this is a no brainer. Its ridiculous to have a dispatcher there all night for all these departments when the call volume is very low at night. Even the county channel gets very quiet at night, they can certainly pick up a small village or two and in theory is something big goes down in one of those villages and they bring in some off duty personnel they can always, switch back to their own channel.
