The Lockport police officers union is expected to urge the Common Council today to spend $272,000 to upgrade the police department’s radio equipment and keep dispatching in-house.
City leaders for weeks have discussed whether to let Lockport Police Department continue to handle its own dispatching or have LPD utilize Niagara County’s dispatch center. Should LPD join the county’s center, the city could either carve out a separate frequency for LPD or utilize a shared frequency, which is used by every law enforcement agency in the county except Niagara Falls Police Department.
