Complaints About Center

Some fire chiefs Quay County (NM) have filed complaints about the county’s PSAP at the Tucumcari Police Department, saying dispatchers are making mistakes, partly because of high turn-over. Police chief Larry Ham didn’t deny mistakes to a reporter, but pointed out that a dispatcher’s base salary is $7.25 per hour. Several dispatchers have left for the state police, which pay $2 to $3 more per hour. The center is fully staffed with 7 persons, he said, but just one has 3 years experience, while four have just 2-3 months, and two have just 3 weeks experience. Read more about their problems here.