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Town approves reverse 911 plan

Program to be free until 2010

By Richard J. Hafey CORRESPONDENT



PAXTON— The town has joined a reverse 911 program that provides for notification of emergencies in or outside of the town by the Worcester County Sheriff’s Department.

After hearing a presentation about the program last night, the Board of Selectmen and the Board of Health approved the plan.

Tom Ashe, director of the sheriff’s Community Relations Reverse 911-Emergency Notification System, said the program provides two means of notification of emergencies in or out of town.

In an areawide emergency, everyone in town is notified by telephone, he said.

If it is a town emergency, a designated town official will notify the sheriff’s office, which, in turn, will notify residents.

He said notification can be townwide or for selected town departments and can be made within 10 minutes.

Mr. Ashe said the program will be free until 2010, after which there will be an $85,000 charge spread among the communities participating, based on population; 74 communities in Central Massachusetts are eligible.

He said eight to 10 towns, including Holden and Sterling, have signed on.

A “fail-safe” procedure will weed out false alarms, he said. It would require a designated person making the call, followed by a callback to a listed number from the sheriff’s office.

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Posted by: Sniper

Why is the SHERIFF instituting this ????????? Am I missing something here ???? Do SHERIFFS run the NORMAL 911 system ? No. WTF !!!

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Posted by: Michele

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Originally Posted by Sniper Why is the SHERIFF instituting this ????????? Am I missing something here ???? Do SHERIFFS run the NORMAL 911 system ? No. WTF !!!

In VT some do...

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Posted by: lpwpd722

That would be good to have, though. I know our school district have something like that with messages, like parent/teacher night, no school etc.

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Posted by: BPD3352

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Originally Posted by Sniper Why is the SHERIFF instituting this ????????? Am I missing something here ???? Do SHERIFFS run the NORMAL 911 system ? No. WTF !!!

That is so they can put "Call 911" on their cruisers and not catch shit for it.

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Posted by: Big K

In some counties in Oregon the Sheriff is totally in charge (hiring and firing)

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Posted by: Sniper

hahahahahahahahahahah

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Posted by: csauce777

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Originally Posted by Sniper Why is the SHERIFF instituting this ????????? Am I missing something here ???? Do SHERIFFS run the NORMAL 911 system ? No. WTF !!!

I believe Plymouth County already does reverse 911.

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Posted by: USMCMP5811

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Originally Posted by Sniper Why is the SHERIFF instituting this ????????? Am I missing something here ???? Do SHERIFFS run the NORMAL 911 system ? No. WTF !!!

that's so they can put out the public announcements come election time

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Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

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Originally Posted by Sniper Why is the SHERIFF instituting this ????????? Am I missing something here ???? Do SHERIFFS run the NORMAL 911 system ? No. WTF !!!

Its because they have better grant writers

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Posted by: Vader

In VT some do...

In some counties in Oregon the Sheriff is totally in charge (hiring and firing)

Ummmm. Do I have to say it? Or does someone else want to?

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Posted by: Wolfman


We're off to see the Sheriff!!!

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Posted by: resqjyw0

And the jail is still top priority...

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Posted by: Killjoy

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In VT some do... In some counties in Oregon the Sheriff is totally in charge (hiring and firing)

I didn't realize Worcester County was in Vermont and Oregon.

What a genius.

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Posted by: rg1283

Acutally, WCSO has taken over for Worcester, today their command post was parked infront of WPD HQ today, just running with the lights on, parked in the NO parking zone near where the Wagons park. Its was like a WTF moment?.

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Posted by: lawdog671

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Originally Posted by rg1283 Acutally, WCSO has taken over for Worcester, today their command post was parked infront of WPD HQ today, just running with the lights on, parked in the NO parking zone near where the Wagons park. Its was like a WTF moment?.

Yeah I'll take a heavy duty wrecker .... any idea why?

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Posted by: justanotherparatrooper

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Originally Posted by lawdog671 Yeah I'll take a heavy duty wrecker .... any idea why?

It doubles as a roach coach

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Posted by: mpd61

They were delivering the decoy drag-queen prostitutes for the days "sting" operation. This was after they dropped the K-9 team off at the Post Office, and the inspection sticker strike team at Jiffy Lube!

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Posted by: Deuce

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Originally Posted by rg1283 Acutally, WCSO has taken over for Worcester, today their command post was parked infront of WPD HQ today, just running with the lights on, parked in the NO parking zone near where the Wagons park. Its was like a WTF moment?.

Not to bust balls but the wagons are parked in the sally port, Belmont St side of the puzzle palace.

Screw it, if the SO wants to take over and hump all my calls they can have it. I'm sick of babysitting floaters all day. I wouldn't have a problem doing crosswords and homework all day while collecting a fat paycheck. Err, I mean being left alone to be more proactive...

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Posted by: PBC FL Cop

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Originally Posted by Deuce Screw it, if the SO wants to take over and hump all my calls they can have it. I'm sick of babysitting floaters all day. I wouldn't have a problem doing crosswords and homework all day while collecting a fat paycheck. Err, I mean being left alone to be more proactive...

Good to see there are still some seasoned cops on the board

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Posted by: lawdog671

http://www.masscops.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35722

Thought you all would get laugh out of this.....a link to another forum about how the NUCLEAR POWER FACILITY in Seabrook wouldn't pony up for one of these systems but GG has no problem spending your money....because we have so many more issues requiring one of these in Worcester County than a county that borders Chernobyl.....wtf again...

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