The Wabash County Dispatch is probably the busiest area of the Sheriff's Department. The members are responable for answering ALL phone lines coming into the department, and then passing the call on to the proper department (if not an in-coming request for patrol assistance). The dispatchers are the officers only link to assistance. Dispatchers must know as much as an officer, they must able to dispatch the right responding department, whether it be our officers, the fire departments, EMA, other police agencies, or any other agency. Dispatchers work with a LARGE amount of stress, as they never quite know what they are sending an officer into. But worst may be, when they DO know what they are sending an officer to. As we are a small department, everyone knows everyone, personally.

CALLS FOR SERVICE

Total for 1997: Almost 10,000 calls

For 1998: 12,479

As an officer who depends on the dispatchers for everything, I would just like to say thanks, and keep up the fine work.

Duties

• Answer all in coming calls
• Answer 911 calls
• Dispatch officers
• Handle warrants
• Dispatch Fire Departments
• Assist EMS
• Dispatch ambulances
• Logging all calls
• Taken messages for officers

MEMBERS

• Chief Dispatcher Lilly Overman
• Mariann Dazey
• Sandy Beeks
• Tammi Monce
• Beth Hayslett
• Keith Walters

Please feel to Email the dispatchers, just mark the Email for who it is for and we will get it to them.

Links to other sites on the Web

911 (Nena)
Dispatch magazine
Police Scanner

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