‘Functional Consolidation’ Could Happen With Escambia, Pensacola Emergency Calls

May 26, 2011

Escambia County and the city of Pensacola could combine their emergency dispatch services.

County Administrator Randy Oliver, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan, Mayor Ashton Hayward’s Chief of Staff John Asmar, and Pensacola Police Chief Chip Simmons met Monday afternoon to discuss moving forward with a plan to implement functional consolidation of emergency dispatch operations. The goal of all the entities is to see if it is feasible to maintain the same level of service to the public while saving taxpayers money.

In order to move forward the plan would have to provide a cost savings for county residents while maintaining standards of service. Although cost savings would come from reducing duplicated services, officials said the effort would not result in any staff layoffs except through attrition, as dispatch staff retire.

Representatives from the above agencies will visit Mobile — which recently completed a similar consolidation — to study how functional consolidation was accomplished there.

Comments

3 Responses to “‘Functional Consolidation’ Could Happen With Escambia, Pensacola Emergency Calls”

  1. sharon on May 26th, 2011 5:33 pm

    Ecambia county does have a state of the art emergency 911 center however it is separate from ecambia county police dispatch and both are separate from city dispatch.

  2. ralph on May 26th, 2011 1:55 pm

    why does escambia county florida not have E911? would that not consolidate everything?

  3. paul on May 26th, 2011 11:37 am

    I don’t want Anything to do with the city of P’cola, the next thing ya know they’ll be wanting us to pay for their ballpark Bait-n-Switch scam…

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