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A report presented to the state 911 Board earlier this summer recommended a consolidation of the two primary public safety answering points in Garland County, but the board’s executive director said the county and city of Hot Springs would decide how to merge their 911 call centers.
C.J. Engel said presenting a plan to consolidate 101 primary PSAPs to 77 is the board’s focus, a responsibility delegated to it by the Public Safety Act of 2019. The plan is due by Jan. 1.
Primary PSAPs, which the 2019 law defines as locations that receive 911 communications and dispatch two or more public safety agencies, are funded by a public safety surcharge collected and remitted by telecommunications providers…
