An analysis of options for separating law enforcement and fire protection dispatch services will be considered by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors when it meets Tuesday in Santa Barbara.

Separating the services would allow law enforcement dispatchers to concentrate on that aspect and would provide all the county’s fire agencies, which already cooperate extensively with a single dispatch service able to coordinate various departments.

It would also provide a redundant public service answering point to the primary one the Sheriff’s Office operates at…

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