Police 911 call center downtown

ST. LOUIS — Union officials and some St. Louis aldermen complained Tuesday about their lack of input into the city’s plan to combine the city police, fire and EMS 911 call centers this fall.

Mayor Tishaura O. Jones in late August announced plans to combine three emergency call centers in an attempt to alleviate understaffing and 911 delays that have been at the center of local media reports for months.

Alderman Joseph Vaccaro, 23rd Ward, said in a meeting of the aldermanic public safety committee Tuesday that he was upset that the mayor’s administration had not yet consulted aldermen about the plans and did not make police officials available for the Tuesday meeting when asked…