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Document - Historical information/data - Eagan PD Requesting Full Dispatching - 2/6/1973 (Eagan vo e artment 37 '1' le AD St. Pau ° 55122 Martin DesLauriers Chief of Police 6 FEBRUARY 1973 TO: EAGAN VILLAGE COUNCIL FROM: CHIEF OF POLICE FIRE CHIEF SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR 24-HOURS DISPATCHING SERVICE - Effective 1 July 1973 COST Salaries for 32 additional persons $129660.00 Less difference in telephone charges - 658.68 Cost - 6 Months $129001.32 One-time remodeling of office and equipment installation 19000.00 TOTAL, COST - 1973. .. . . . .. . ... .. .$13,001.32 ell � rLl 23 Eagan Village Council - 2 - 6 FEBRUARY 1973 EQUIPMENT ' The police radios presently in use would be continued until Federal-State Radio Funding is completed. Fire radio equipment which is now in use or authorized to be purchased will be used. Installation into the police department is needed along with provisions for stand-by auxiliary power. This is included in the cost of remodeling. i r. Eagan Village Council - 3 - 6 FEBRUARY 1973 DISPATCH PERSONNEL Part-time hourly wage. Skills: Typing Dictaphone - tape recorder Filing & Records Duties: Handle police and fire phones Dispatch police and fire radio calls Type officers' reports from tape recorder and dictaphone Filing and records keeping Typing correspondence for fire department Assignments given by Chief of Police, Sergeants, or Secretary I Keep log of all calls and radio transmissions Operate and have general knowledge of Uniscope (teletype) Eagan Village Council - 4 - 6 FEBRUARY 1973 BENEFITS 1. Removal of fire phones from private homes (it is becoming difficult to insure that someone will be responsible for calls on weekends and holidays). 2. Direct calls from the dispatcher to the firemen rather than information relayed through phone lines (better reception). 3. Better coordination and communication between fire and police - local and neighboring. a. Requesting more (or less) equipment b. Cancelling calls c. Better overall communications in case of natural or civil disaster (plane crash, tornado, demonstration, etc.) 4. More efficient handling of calls on a local basis with the needs of the general public in mind. a. Quicker response time to calls. b. A greater number of calls handled by phone because of local information and resources available. 5. Better use of National and State police computers. a. Use of Wanted Files on all suspicious persons and/or vehicles stopped at night and weekends. b. Stolen property can be entered more quickly into the computer, possibly resulting in more rapid recovery. 6. A local dispatcher would provide greater safety for local police working one man vehicles - assistance can be dispatched more quickly. I 7. Proper handling of all calls, whether minor or serious, would provide a great service to the public and provide better police-fire-community relations. 8. By providing 24-hour service, more commercial and industrial alarms will be installed locally because of reduced cost to the businessmen. We will be able to provide faster response time and reduce the incidence of burglaries and robberies. 9. It could be one to twoili ears before the joint facility't y , a y is available for Eagan-Rosemount-IGH. The only additional cost incurred now would be for the remodeling of the office and the installation of equipment used - approximately $1000. Eagan Village Council - 5 - 6 FEBRUARY 1973 With the installation of 24-hour service, approximately fifty fire-burglary- robbery alarms will be installed at our office at a charge of between $70 to $100 per year for each one for a total of $3,500 to $5000. IGH, Apple Valley and Rosemount Fire Departments have indicated that they might want to have their phones answered and units dispatched from this office. There would be an annual charge of between $2,000 to $3,000 each for this service, resulting in an annual gain of $6,000 to $9,000. Martin DesLauriers Chief of Police Villiam SchulEz Fire Chief MD/vk