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The Distribution Of Emergency Police Dispatch Call Incident Types and Priority Levels Within the Police Priority Dispatch System

Shawn Messinger, David Warner, Chris Knight, Greg Scott, MBA, EMD-QI, Mark Rector, Tracey Barron, BS, Angela VanDyke, Lazaro Guerra, Isabel Gardett, PhD, Brett Patterson, Jeff J. Clawson, MD, Christopher Olola, PhD

Aug 03, 2013|AEDR 2013 Vol. 1 Issue 2|Original Research

911 centers receive a wide variety of calls for police-related incidents. Using the Police Priority Dispatch System (PPDS®), a 911 Emergency Police Dispatcher (EPD) categorizes each incident with a specific Chief Complaint (CC) and prioritizes the case using a systematic alpha-numeric coding matrix. The wide variation in CC types and specific codes assigned can profoundly affect staffing and resource deployment decisions made by law enforcement agencies. However, the frequency of specific call types and priority levels in the PPDS has not been studied formally to date. The objective of...

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