dispatch center
Coordination command post
A dispatch center is a facility where personnel coordinate emergency services, transportation, or other operations that require real-time deployment.
Police, fire departments, and ambulance services operate from dispatch centers, as do trucking companies and taxi services.
Operators at a dispatch center receive calls, assess situations, and direct appropriate units to locations: The 911 dispatch center handled over two hundred calls that night.
- ambulance servicesEmergency medical transportation system
- dispatcherOne who allocates resources
- fire departmentBlaze-fighting public service
- radio networksAffiliated station groups sharing content
- police departmentOfficial law enforcement body
emergency responders · operator · 911 · emergency call · GPS tracking · call centers · call · courier services · police · resource allocation · trucking companies · two-way radios · triage · public safety officers · crisis hotline · disaster management · incident report · headset
- emergency medicalemergency room, ambulance, EMS, ER, EMT
- firefightingfire station, fire truck, fire engine, firefighter, firefighters
- logisticsshipping, delivery, warehouses, warehousing, shipment
- courier servicepackage, parcel, pickup, delivery, tracking
- emergency facilitiesfire station, police station, hospital, emergency room, ER
- Emergency Safety911, fire station, police station, ambulance, fire truck
dispatch centerfield unit
Personnel operating remotely
field · ground crew · on-site · first responders · scene
dispatch centerfield unit
Personnel operating remotely
mobile unit · patrol car · ambulance · fire engine · first responder