WV InterOperability System = You call it potato and I'll call it junk in so far as it's need and usefulness.
It appears you are not as well versed as you may think.
I will grant you that Open Fox is the, what used to be called teletype, but what is now a secure T-1 line to which is dedicated to Comm Center. Yes, it requires a certification from the DOJ. NCIC is nothing more than National Criminal Information Center, a unique address to which a query is directed along the network. Every terminal on the system has a unique address.
In so far as poorly trained, lets look at the operators in Berkeley Co.. You have 2 of which that can't and/or haven't yet mastered the English language in sentence form. You have a 911 enhanced system to which the majority of the roadways in the county were renamed and no one, and I mean no one knows where they are. Every dispatch now required a map page indicator because they have screwed up the locations. LE has to ask 4 and 5 times for directions as a result of the screwed up location system. I called 911 on Saturday and the 911dispatcher had no idea where Rt 9 west of I-81 was and she needed to know the street name. There are good ones, but the skill level for the job has been lowered to nothing.
In so far as inter agency communications, fine Jefferson and Berkeley can talk to each other. How about Washington Co, Frederick Co, Loudon Co., Morgan Co., Frederick Co., VA. Are they not adjoining the eastern panhandle? You reasoning is faulty.
There is no reason for the eastern panhandle to be grouped in the rest of the state. There is no emergency interaction with them.
Be out in the field one night when these minimum wage, un-skilled street hires can't figure out where you are when you give them a location for a Signal 5 or you had better be hoping that the perpetrator to which you are pressuring is headed to Jefferson Co or visa versa. Heaven forbid they would get on I-81, Rt 11, Rt 9 west to Morgan Co., etc.. It takes them 15 – 20 minutes to call or tty the neighboring agencies.
But that's ok, you will never be in that situation. And I am glad I won’t be again. We just need to pray for the officers who are being placed in that position.