Document - Historical information/data - Eagan PD Requesting Full Dispatching - 2/6/1973 (Eagan vo e artment
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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