This week the view of law enforcement officials will be presented, while the stance of fire and rescue officials in the county will be examined next week. 90 percent of them would say Yes, said Luray police chief Page Campbell. We had an armed robbery in progress at Little Caesar s one time, and we didn t get that call for seven minutes, Campbell said of the incident that occurred about one half mile from LPD headquarters. This is a public safety issue.
Law enforcement is of the opinion that someone is dragging their feet.
The equipment for EOC to handle law enforcement calls and dispatch them immediately is currently in place, and alterations to connect those calls to a second console in the EOC office designated specifically for police calls could be activated within minutes. You could do that in five minutes, said Butch Johnstone, a senior analyst with the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services. It s a no-brainer situation to change the location of where you re dispatching police calls from. The idea of consolidation is not a new one. A plan was presented in June of 1996 to consolidate the sheriff s dispatch with a new 911 center for fire and rescue personnel in the county, but then-sheriff E.M. Pap Sedwick was not interested in bringing the two together.