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SOUTHWICK — Technical issues are causing a delay to the initial time frame for Southwick emergency calls to transition to a regional emergency dispatch center in Westfield. The completion date has now been pushed out by about six months.
“There are a lot of technical issues that we still need to work out – and that’s been our challenge,” Southwick Police Chief Robert Landis said last week. “We have to go through a procurement process to do that right, and make sure all of our bases are covered. We don’t want to be coming back and piecemealing anything.”
Nina Barszcz, dispatch administrator for the Westfield Public Safety Communications Center, who has been overseeing the project, also said last week that she now anticipates Southwick will be fully merged into the center by the beginning of 2023…
