It should be possible in the near future that entrepreneurial vendors will see a market and bring the kinds of highly personal and context sensitive information that evolves from community policing to a product line that improves dispatch and response. Yet perhaps the greatest challenge to PSAP consolidation in Connecticut is its tradition of local autonomy. When I raised the question among those involved in dispatch, I heard few encouraging words. Donnelly says that a regional system can actually improve on all of the matters that the officer noted as negatives. From a town's viewpoint A problem with most police departments, the peak of the pyramid of command permits only a small percentage of the officers to be promoted.
Regional teams help.
Offering a wider array of work assignments helps. Whatever regional team one gets involved with requires training. You meet people from other departments. You're pulled away from your regular work assignment fairly frequently and that is stimulating. The specialty teams, for example, would be impractical and beyond the budget of a town this size.