PAW PAW, Mich. (AP) - The sheriff’s department in Van Buren County is getting a new phone system after the old one malfunctioned.
The Kalamazoo Gazette reports (https://bit.ly/1mV5iem ) the Van Buren County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved spending nearly $114,000 on the replacement phone system. Officials say the system could be installed in four to six weeks.
The county’s central dispatch system partially went down recently. Dispatch Director Jeri Tapper says the failure would allow only one 911 call at a time. Calls that aren’t answered in the county transfer to Cass County, however, so no calls went unanswered.
The county quickly began looking at a replacement system after the failure.
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Information from: Kalamazoo Gazette, https://www.mlive.com/kalamazoo
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