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Amid calls for police budget cuts, Oakland police plan to hire more dispatchers, improve their dispatch center’s technology and seek more funding for the center, all to improve public safety.
The planned changes follow a grand jury’s findings that police dispatchers are overworked and the center is short-staffed and underfunded. Police will seek more resources for the center from the City Council in the next biennial budget, and the department is working now to improve the center’s technology, said police spokesman Paul Chambers…
