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Over the past 10 months, Louie Sanchez has called the police nearly a dozen times about the goings-on outside his Allstate Agency office on Central and 61st. And the city councilor — a former Albuquerque Police Department officer — wants to know why officers weren’t immediately dispatched to his latest report about a man threatening or maybe hitting another with a gun. He said he believes calls are getting downgraded from what should be considered the highest priority to where officers are not even sent to the scene.
Last week, after the last meeting, council services requested the city’s Office of Internal Audit conduct an audit of 911 emergency response times, said Nicole Kelley, the city auditor. She said they are determining what the scope and objective of that review would be…
