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Petersburg police are now able to receive text messages to 911 from some people with cell phones.

Police chief Jim Kerr said this text-to-911, as it’s called, went live Tuesday for customers of AT&T. It won’t be available for cell phone users with GCI service until later this summer.

“Just like you’re going to send a regular text message, you text 911 and then you put your message in like you would anything else and you can have a text message conversation with my dispatchers so that they can get help on the way to you,” Kerr explained Wednesday…