Private Comm Center

The village of Melrose Park (Ill., pop. 23,171) is shifting its public safety dispatching to the private company Norcomm Public Safety Communication Inc., to save th expenes of upgrading its center. The last comm center renovation cost the village $1 million, officials recalled. The company will hire all 10 of the village’s dispatchers–pending interviews with the employees, the company said. Norcomm already dispatches for Bellwood, Franklin Park and Northlake, and its parent company also operates other centers in the Illinois, Indiana and Michigan region.