In Support of A Combined Dispatch

The Saratoga Town Council has some tough decisions ahead of them regarding the Saratoga Police Department’s communication center.

For years, decades even, Saratoga has maintained its own dispatch center. Not only has it dispatched for its own police department, but for the Encampment Police Department and the volunteer fire departments in Saratoga and Encampment. In the past, any suggestion of communications operating elsewhere was almost immediately rejected. Yet, what’s long felt like a necessity seems to have turned into a luxury, especially when one considers the recent report given by Sar...