ISP D34 and D35

[dwh367]

Has anyone else noticed the Jasper Post also dispatching for the Evansville Post overnight lately? Kind of makes me wonder if it is some sort of test to see how well going to regional dispatch centers is going to work even though the Jasper Post itself will dispatched from Bloomington (last I knew) when the time comes.

 

[W9NES]

Dist 14 Lafayette Post has been doing this for Peru Dist 16 when Peru has no dispatchers available on Midnight shifts.

 

[jerk]

And I think they are not filling open positions to avoid eliminating current dispatcher jobs, so some posts have more open slots lately.

 

[djl998]

They've been doing that for several years at certain posts that don't have enough dispatchers, but it is sort of a precursor to the regional dispatch system. I would think that when they consolidate, they will still need about the same number of dispatchers they have now, it's just that SAFE-T has eliminated the need for dispatchers to physically be located at each post. I don't know if the plan is to reduce the number of overall dispatch positions or not.

 

[AK9R]

On the surface, it would seem that consolidating dispatch locations without eliminating some dispatch jobs is accomplishing nothing. Labor costs have to be a large chunk of the operating expense for any dispatch operation. On the other hand, there is significant cost in installing and maintaining dispatch consoles, the backroom equipment, and the infrastructure (towers, T1 lines, emergency generators, etc.). So, consolidating dispatch locations should reduce the overall operating costs even if there is no reduction in the number of jobs.

 

[GTO_04]

If a tower serving one of the regional dispatch centers goes down, many more counties will be affected
by the outage compared to the older post dispatching system.

GTO_04

 

[AK9R]

Depending on how they set it up, I don't think so.

It doesn't make sense for a regional dispatch center to use a tower local to the center to access the system when the users they need to talk to are several counties away. I'm thinking that they'll get into the system via a land-line connection that will be routed to towers in the area they are dispatching for.

Let's say a dispatcher at Lafayette Post has traffic for a District 16 officer. I'm thinking the dispatcher will key up ISP-16-DISP on their console and via land-line only light up the towers that have ISP-16-DISP user radios affiliated with them (which would most likely be just the towers in Cass, Fulton, Howard, Miami, Tipton, and Wabash Counties). In my scenario, the tower local to Lafayette Post wouldn't light up with ISP-16-DISP unless there was a user in the area of that tower.

 

[djbrane]

On the surface, it would seem that consolidating dispatch locations without eliminating some dispatch jobs is accomplishing nothing.

This was posted in another thread by powerlineman on 01/09/09
It states a reduction of dispatchers statewide from 114 to 91.

 

[GTO_04]

Depending on how they set it up, I don't think so.

It doesn't make sense for a regional dispatch center to use a tower local to the center to access the system when the users they need to talk to are several counties away. I'm thinking that they'll get into the system via a land-line connection that will be routed to towers in the area they are dispatching for.

Let's say a dispatcher at Lafayette Post has traffic for a District 16 officer. I'm thinking the dispatcher will key up ISP-16-DISP on their console and via land-line only light up the towers that have ISP-16-DISP user radios affiliated with them (which would most likely be just the towers in Cass, Fulton, Howard, Miami, Tipton, and Wabash Counties). In my scenario, the tower local to Lafayette Post wouldn't light up with ISP-16-DISP unless there was a user in the area of that tower.

It would make more sense to do it that way. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

GTO_04