The Inglewood Police Department
continuously recruits for Public Safety Dispatchers.
The Inglewood Police Department Communications Center is located in the
Emergency Operations Center, beneath the City Hall and Police buildings.
The Communications Center is a state of the art emergency operations center
equipped with modern technological equipment. This equipment includes a
Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) System, a computerized Motorola Centracom Series
II two-way radio system, and a computerized Vesta phone system.
The Public Safety Dispatchers receive emergency and non-emergency phone calls,
enter information on the computer consoles, and communicate by voice or by
computer with police units in the field. Fire and ambulance calls are received
in Inglewood and transferred to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, which
serves the city.
Call 9-1-1 for emergencies. Emergency calls are crimes in progress,
crimes just occurred (in which the suspect can be apprehended immediately),
serious injuries and any other life-threatening situations.
If you have a choice of using an ordinary home or business telephone and not a
cellular phone, please do so. Calling 9-1-1 from a home or business phone will
connect you immediately to the correct police or sheriff's department. Although
in the future cellular phone technology will make the same ease of use possible,
that day is not yet here. Calling 9-1-1 from a cellular phone will now connect
you to the California Highway Patrol. They can transfer you efficiently to the
correct local agency, but there is at least a slight delay. Also, they rely on
the accuracy of your description of the location from which you are calling.
Use 310-412-8771 for non-emergency calls. These are non-life-threatening
situations and disturbances such as loud music or loitering. Non-emergency calls
also include reports for crimes which did not just occur, crimes which you did
not witness and you do not know just when it occurred. Such calls include
burglaries, auto thefts, or vandalism which occurred while you were sleeping or
absent.
Officers or appropriate civilian personnel will respond to report calls, but
these do not have the urgency associated with injuries or crimes in progress.
The CAD system classifies calls into high, intermediate, and low priority
according to the need for speed. Response time depends upon the priority of the
call and what else is happening in the city at the same time.
You may also call the police front desk at 310-412-5210 to make a report by
telephone.
