Idea of joint communications center raises police chief’s ire

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. A proposal for creation of a joint communications center to dispatch calls to the emergency response services of both the city and county ran into immediate pushback at the city council retreat on May 10. Councilwoman Katrina Richardson raised the issue, arguing that a joint center would lead to greater efficiency and more timely response times. Police Chief Fred Mosley asked Richardson where she had gotten her information of the alleged lag time in response times as a result of emergency calls sometimes having to be routed through the dispatcher at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO). Richardson, he pointedly noted, had never discussed the