https://holbrookrecc.com/2025/07/31/holbrook-regional-emergency-communications-center-receives-12-million-state-grant-to-enhance-public-safety/
basically what this means is - state pays holbrook to provide dispatch service for a bunch of towns - the towns fire their dispatchers and use the money to hire more cops or FFs - so its the state indirectly hiring more cops and firefighters - no radio channels change hands so in the operational sense absolutely NOTHING changes - if anything - dispatch becomes 10X more fragmented as no one can figure out which dispatcher is covering which area basically the same number of dispatchers are on duty - there are no huge gains in efficiency - the police phone still rings off the hook on friday and saturday nights prove me wrong - please as we have said many times before - moving to a countywide 911 dispatch center is much cleaner and more efficient - they could run all of Norfolk County - (except Quincy) - off 2 radio channels - 1 police and 1 fire/ems - especially with the new fangled MDTs and smart phones - they could do full boundary drops - response times would maybe drop in half - dispatcher costs would drop in half - losses would drop in half - it would be a perfect world instead we get Proctor and Farwell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKaSmt1nUKu1mTo%2Bmkv0eUsO-p3fm0_6m%2BoKpp4KCeAZMQ%40mail.gmail.com.
