Morton Communications Center

The Morton Communications Center is operated and staffed by the Morton Police Department.  The communications center, as well as the Morton Police Department moved to a new, state of the art facility, in 2004.

The Morton Comminications Center is operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.  It is staffed by 9 full and part time telecommunicators.  All telecommunicators are trained in emergency medical dispatch.

There are 2 primary answering positions at Morton and room to add 2 additional answering positions should the need arise.  Each answering position is configured the same and is equipped with a Zetron Intergrator RD radio dispatch console, Zetron Series 3200 telephone console and Sungard/HTE computer aided dispatch system.  There are a total of 6 dedicated 9-1-1 trunks, 3 for wireline 9-1-1 calls and 3 for wireless 9-1-1 calls. 

In 2008, Morton handled 5,029 emergency 9-1-1 calls.  Of those calls, 2,724 were wireless 9-1-1 calls and 2,305 were wireline 9-1-1 calls.

Morton provides dispatch services to the following agencies: