Police Records System Costs More Than Expected
A more efficient computerized records and dispatch system will cost more than double than budgeted, but the balance is easily funded by changes in contracting for health insurance.
A new police records and dispatch system will cost Whitefish Bay nearly $159,000 in 2013 – more than double what the Village Board allocated in the budget. But the extra funds are available and were approved Monday. Now that the North Shore Consolidated Dispatch Center is operational, the seven North Shore police departments were tasked with further streamlining their communications. Currently, the seven North Shore police departments use three records management providers that do not work together, so squads on the street do not know what other squads are doing, dispatch cannot contact all cars via the computer systems and the dispatch center cannot track the location of the squads. The North Shore Consolidated Dispatch Center in Bayside …
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