Dispatch – Summer Study Committee
• Long Term Recommendations– The Department of Public Safety should be
provided funding to hire an outside consultant to review the state of dispatching in the State, develop a needs assessment of dispatching services in the state and provide recommendations for ensuring that all emergency service providers are adequately dispatched.
– Communities that do not provide their own dispatching services but want to operate police, fire or emergency medical services and want dispatching should pay for this service.
Summer Study Committee
• Interim Recommendations– The State of Vermont should assume responsibility
as the “default” basic dispatching service for an Emergency Service Provider should any ESP lose its dispatch service.
– The Vermont State Police should complete its dispatch consolidation, combining personnel into one-stage emergency communication centers, to the extent feasible, and report on the progress to the House and Senate Government Operations Committees.
Summer Study Committee
• Interim Recommendations (Continued)– The use of technology such as mobile data
and new radio systems should be explored.
– The Vermont State Police should continue to provide “default” basic dispatch service to new police agencies and law enforcement certified constables.
