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RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Ohio — City Council heard Tuesday (July 27) a presentation from its police and fire chiefs about the possibility of merging the Heights Hillcrest Communications Center, upon which the city has relied since 2018 for its dispatch services, with the larger Chagrin Valley Dispatch.
The Heights Hilllcrest Communications Center (HHCA), located in the former MetroHealth Medical Center building on Severance Circle in Cleveland Heights, supplies police, fire and EMS dispatch services for the cities of Shaker Heights, South Euclid, Cleveland Heights, University Heights and Richmond Heights. It was formed in 2017, with Richmond Heights becoming the last city to join a year later. Each of the member communities is now weighing the option of dissolving HHCA in order to merge with Chagrin Valley Dispatch (CVD), with South Euclid City Council voting Monday (July 26) to do so…
