River Edge May Consider County Dispatch Services Down the Road
Borough officials met with Bergen County representatives about potentially looking into the County's 911, Dispatch Services
Looking for additional shared services and already facing a lack of police dispatchers on staff, River Edge officials began discussing the possibility of utilizing the Bergen County system in Mahwah on Monday night. The Public Safety Operation Center (PSOC) is capable of providing around the clock coverage of 911, police, fire and emergency medical services calls on a unified radio system through its 38 full-time and 10 per-diem employees. "The trunked radio system makes better use of the frequencies," County Police Chief Brian Higgins said. "We're using 800 frequencies in Bergen County and that is not a very efficient system." A trunked radio system is a computer-controlled two-way radio system that allows a large group of users to share …
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