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The Owensboro-Daviess County 911 dispatch center took 25,000 more calls in 2020 than during the previous year, according to statistics released by the Owensboro Police Department.
But while overall calls were up, the number of people calling 911 with an emergency actually fell slightly last year compared to 2019.
In 2020, dispatchers took 224,185 emergency and nonemergency calls. Of those, 55,000 were 911 calls from cellphones and landlines, or from “voice over internet” calls. The center also received 168,569 nonemergency calls…
