Mayo —
Lafayette County Sheriff Brian Lamb is proud of the new 911 Dispatch Center and County Detention Center, which was remodeled in large part by inmate labor, who, according to Lamb, did a fantastic job. Grant monies were used to purchase most of the new computer equipment and programs for the dispatch center, he said.
On July 1, 2010, the Florida legislature signed into law Florida Statute 401.465, otherwise known as the 911 Public Safety Tele-communicators Program. This new law requires all public safety tele-communicators (PST) to become certified by October 1, 2012. The new law also mandates 20 hours of renewal training in order to be re-certified every two years.
On Monday, May 14, Lamb took the Lafayette County commissioners, the Mayo Free Press and a select few others on a guided tour of the newly remodeled facilities.
“We gutted the majority of this,” said Lamb of the old offices inside the building. “All you could see was the bare walls and insulation.”
Previously, the building housed emergency management services and all their personnel, which made for tight quarters when combined with the detention center and 911 dispatch personnel.
Emergency management services is being moved to a new facility on US 27 near the Mayo Community Center and the new Doctors’ Memorial Family Medicine Center. A grand opening is tentatively scheduled for June 1.
Once the remodeling was completed, the new dispatch center was equipped with wall-to wall computer screens displaying a variety of different security functions in a much larger space, giving dispatchers a lot more room to move around. Additionally, with a large remodeled conference room in the building, the sheriff can now offer in-house training for his deputies, as required by the new state statute.
Certain sections of the detention center also received some refurbishing, including the control room, which was enlarged and modernized. Outside the detention center, the inmate recreation area now has a screen installed, so passersby can’t see the inmates and vice versa.
There is still a little more tweaking that needs to be done, but Lamb said, “We’ve come a long way.”
Mayo Free Press
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Inside the new state-of-the-art 911 dispatch center in Lafayette County. - Photos: Joyce Marie Taylor
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Lafayette County Sheriff Brian Lamb outside the Lafayette County Detention Center.
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