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we work two dispatchers per shift and have 2 road deputies per shift.

We have 2 dispatchers per shift and generally no more than 4 officers on the road...

     We have to have a minimum of three dispatchers between 3am & 11am (2 PD & 1 Fire/EMS) and normally four or more at all other times. We are the PSAP for the entire county of approximately 104,000 people.  We work five - 8 hour shifts: 7a-3p, 3p - 11p and 11p - 7a.

POLICE: We have a minimum of 6 officers & 1 supervisor on the streets at any given time. However, that number can rise when you start adding our motor officers (up to 8), Special Operations (up to 5), Lake & Park Police (up to 5) and Airport Police (up to 2). That is not counting if we have officers working schools (up to 7 normally) or any special events. We are also the back up dispatch for the City Marshals (up to 8) when their dispatch is not working. Also, we may have detectives or narcotics officers out at any given time.

FIRE (City): Inside the city we have 8 stations (including a dual purpose station at the airport), running 7 engines, 1 quint, 1 rescue, 1 batallion chief and 4 ambulances.  We also have three reserve engines and six reserve ambulances. The fire trucks cover inside the city only, while the ambulances cover the entire county.

FIRE (County): We dispatch for 10 primary Volunteer Fire Departments, as well as 1 VFD/EMS that is called only when requested (as a back-up) by another VFD.

MISC: We also answer after hours calls for animal control as well for other departments that the public can not find the direct number for.

I dispatch for one town that has its own PD/FD/EMS.

At the begining of this year our Police frequency was taken over by the county dispatch. Before that though, we were the only department in the county that had their own dispatch center, including fire and ems. At that time also we had 1 dispatcher per shift, but shifts overlapped an hour or so and if you were busy, you stayed till it slowed. There were always at least 3 road officers on duty. However, we no longer do PD, but we do fire and ems, we have 2 fire stations in town, and we also have automatic responses with 3 neighboring agencies in the next county up because they do not have paramedics.

We work three, twelve hour shifts.  From 2400 to 1200 there is only one dispatcher on duty.  From 1200 to 2400 there are two.  Our officers range from 4 to 8 as they also work a staggered schedule.

We have 6 per shift with 32 to 36 patrol deputies and work 12 hr shifts, rotating days and nights every 2 weeks (that's not including all the other divisions that work special details or call in for ncic.)

We generally work a shift of 3 dispatchers.  Sometimes we have as many as 4 or if we are short and someone works a split, we have 2.  We usually have 7 deputies, but we also dispatch for 3 police depts that sometimes have as many on as 7 (total betwn the 3).  We have 7 ambulances (5 districts) and 12 fire depts (14 districts) we also dispatch for.  At night it is not too bad most of the time.  Daytime thru the week we have admin, jail staff, investigators, drug task force, civil, volunteer, school resource and so on.  We also take after hours animal control and city maintenance calls for several cities.  Someone else does our crimestoppers line now, thank goodness! 

I work graveyard.  We have a minimum of 6 call takers and 3 Dispatchers...and about 70-100 Deputies.

Swingshift, you're lookin at about a minimum of 14 call takers and 6 dispatchers and about 160-180 Deputies.

We have two dispatchers on and 5 officers on the road plus we dispatch for the 10 volunteer fire departments plus the city and first responders for those counties

We have one dispatcher per shift

Anywhere from 3-5 officers on the road and either one or two supervisors on the road

We serve an area that has a population of about 125,000.

3 Telecommunicators from 0715-1515

3 Telecommunicators from 1515-2315

2 Telecommunicators from 2315-0715

During the busier summer months we increase minimums from 2315-0315 to 3 Telecommunicators .

When we are at full staffing we also have a swing shift person that works 1915-0315.

Between the 3 towns and all shifts we can have anywhere from a minimum of 12 to over 30 officers working.  And don't forget 4 fire/EMS departments.

We usually have 2 dispatchers working during the day, and some night we also have 2 dispatchers working, I have 1 dispatcher that floats between night shifts and help cover a shift if someone is out.  We have 2 deputies, 1-2 PD officers, and usually at least 1 THP if not more, we also have 5 FD and 3 Med units that we dispatch for....so we can be sorta busy at times.....

We work three 8 hr shift starting at 0700 1500 & 2300.  Each shift has three operators on duty at a time and we are working toward hiring two more employees so we can have the 0700 and 1500 shift with 4 at a time or have a swing shift.  Our patrol has three 9 hrs shifts same start times and we range b/t 8-10 deputies at a time and each of our PDs have anywhere from 2-3 patrolmen on pershift and they work 12 hr shifts.  We dispatch for 4 FD and 2 EMS station.