Mahoning County’s 911 dispatch system is unrecognizable compared to its first iteration 25 years ago.
Next year, the system will travel from what Sheriff Jerry Greene called “the Stone Ages” to the “21st century.”
County commissioners last week approved about $2.9 million in upgrades to software at each of the county’s eight public safety answering points, or PSAPs, including the computer-aided dispatch system, or CAD, and a new records management system, or RMS.
The upgrades are expected to make police work more streamlined and cohesive countywide....continued ...