I will be talking about my third set of 50 hours with the police department internship. During my internship I visited the dispatch unit. At the dispatch unit I was introduced to a variety of technologies that they use. They use quad screens which is connected to one computer screen. Dispatch told me that they receive all types of calls. Examples of calls they receive is emergency calls and non emergency calls. Some examples of emergency calls they receive are accidents, medical emergencies, domestic violence calls, robberies, missing people, mutual aid calls, homicides and shots fired. Examples of non emergency calls they receive are legal advice, pets, out of state calls if they can’t call 911 and other jurisdictions calls. When they receive a call they have to put the information they receive on the computer into a catalog and log all information they get. When they put the information in from the call it sends the information to the unit that is needed at the time. They will also put in comments and ask a variety of questions to the caller to make sure things are okay or if immediate attention is needed. Everything they get they send it through so that the specific unit knows if it’s a priority 1 which means immediate assistance needed, they will go quick. Everytime they do put in comments it will send it straight to the Police, EMS or Fire whichever is needed at the time live and they will get it right away. I was also shown a list of call channels they have. They have 4 region channels plus 4 tac channels. Tac channels are a channel that units can go offline from the original channel and talk. They also have an animal services channel and a pursuit channel. They also have a VSU channel and a statewide emergency which means the flight channel if they have to get helicopters to an EMS call. If they have to get aviation to a Police call they have a channel for that too. They also showed me another screen with additional mapping incase they need to get directions or locations of things.