Men and women inside the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office communications center field more than 500,000 emergency calls per year. Helping people respond to crises and dispatching deputies to the scenes have been at the core of the responsibilities of about 40 dispatchers who work in the basement of the county Law Enforcement Center on McGee Road.

Now an effort eight years in the making to move the call center into a joint facility with Greenville County Emergency Medical Services has County Council backing after a new resolution was passed Tuesday… READ MORE