Joint dispatch close to reality

Combined 911 would eliminate ‘ring-down’ service.

  • Lake City Police Chief Gerald Butler discusses combined dispatch at Tuesday’s joint city-county meeting. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
    Lake City Police Chief Gerald Butler discusses combined dispatch at Tuesday’s joint city-county meeting. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

    Close to a decade’s worth of potential partnerships, technological advances and behind-the-scenes work could reach a pinnacle in the a few weeks when city and county dispatchers both share space and w…