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The Elgin Police Department is ready to purchase a $1.3 million Motorola Solutions Next Generation 911 phone system that will allow residents to send texts and videos to the city’s emergency dispatch center, an upgrade the state is requiring by July.
It will be an update to the Motorola Solutions system in 2012, which modernized the city’s 911 dispatch center and its radio system, City Manager Rick Kozal said. At the time, the city also purchased a Real-Time Information System, which created a centralized network for all…

