Marion, Iowa Police Department requested training for its new governance board regarding a complete overview of 9-1-1 Center public safety answering point operations, liabilities, trends, protocols, and other related areas. BJA NTTAC referred this request to the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services for fulfillment through the Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center.
Marion Iowa currently has a 911 PSAP. We service a community of over 40 k residents, and our PSAP is understaffed and lacks sufficient quality control, supervision and advanced training. We recently had a complete study conducted by LR Kimball that recommended full consolidation of 911 PSAP's in Linn County Iowa (Cedar Rapids PD, Linn County Sheriff and Marion PD). Unfortunately the political climate is not going to allow the three PSAP's to consolidate, even though the state of Iowa is eager to fund such consolidations. In response to the issues we face, and lack of political will to consolidate, the Marion PD and the City of Marion has developed a strategic plan to grow our PSAP, and we have also established a new governance model The new governance model established a oversight board (Mayor, City Manager, Police Chief, Fire Chief and one City Council person). We have also recently appointed a PSAP Manager that will report to the new board. Our 5 year plan addresses the staffing and budgetary concerns.
Fire Department Command, Mayor, City Manager, Council, Dispatch Staff
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