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    Ralls County 911 will no longer provide criminal history information or enter and maintain warrants and orders of protection, hindering law enforcement's ability to perform their duties safely and effectively. This forces the Sheriff's Office to move dispatch services to Marion County 911 to ensure access to this vital officer safety information. The changes will go into effect later this year without input from law enforcement agencies.

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    Ralls County 911 will no longer provide criminal history information or enter and maintain warrants and orders of protection, hindering law enforcement's ability to perform their duties safely and effectively. This forces the Sheriff's Office to move dispatch services to Marion County 911 to ensure access to this vital officer safety information. The changes will go into effect later this year without input from law enforcement agencies.

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    Ralls County 911 will no longer provide criminal history information or enter and maintain warrants and orders of protection, hindering law enforcement's ability to perform their duties safely and effectively. This forces the Sheriff's Office to move dispatch services to Marion County 911 to ensure access to this vital officer safety information. The changes will go into effect later this year without input from law enforcement agencies.

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    Ralls County 911 will no longer provide criminal history information or enter and maintain warrants and orders of protection, hindering law enforcement's ability to perform their duties safely and effectively. This forces the Sheriff's Office to move dispatch services to Marion County 911 to ensure access to this vital officer safety information. The changes will go into effect later this year without input from law enforcement agencies.

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    Gerry Dinwiddie

    Ralls County Sheriff


    Dispatch: 573-985-5611 / Office: 573-985-7271
    Cell: 573-795-5004 / Fax: 573-985-3100
    475@rallscountysheriff.com
    PO Box 309
    New London, MO 63459

    NEWS RELEASE September 21, 2017

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Ralls County 911 to End Providing Criminal Justice Information


    County Law Enforcement Moves Dispatch Services
    NEW LONDON, MO - The Ralls County 911 Emergency Services Board notified the Sheriffs Office via
    certified mail that beginning later this year, they will implement a series of procedural changes
    geared toward minimizing the level of service they provide to law enforcement agencies in the
    county.
    Among the changes listed in the resolution signed by 911 board Chairman Lowell Jackson and
    Executive Director Gabe Duncan, is an end to providing any type of Criminal History information and
    an end to entering, maintaining, and responding to inquiries about Warrants and Orders of
    Protection.
    Criminal History information is essential in determining what level of offense to charge someone
    newly arrested for certain crimes such as Driving While Intoxicated or Driving While
    Suspended/Revoked. The Prosecuting Attorney and Court System often rely on the information
    provided by a Criminal History in making their determination of charges and sentencing.
    Warrant and Order of Protection entry and maintenance ensure that local warrants and orders of
    protection are entered into the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement System (MULES) which is used
    by agencies across the state and is linked to systems used by agencies across the country. Chief
    Deputy Ronald Haught said, If a person is wanted for felony burglary, but our warrant is not
    entered into MULES, all that person has to do to avoid apprehension is avoid contact with our
    deputies. Even if the suspect encounters a law enforcement officer in a neighboring city or county,
    if the warrant isnt in MULES, the guys going to come back clear instead of wanted; and theyre
    going to let him go.
    Haught said that he and the Sheriff have been in talks with the Ralls County Commission for several
    weeks about the possibility of something like this happening. Ralls 911 had already
    been talking about going to a different CAD system which would mean abandoning access to the
    officer safety information contained in the one we share now. We voiced our objections at that
    time to the (911) board and we thought we had made our case, instead we received a registered
    letter denying us critical services.
    Ralls County Sheriff Gerry Dinwiddie echoed Haughts concerns, refusing to provide this service
    ties our hands with respect to finding a different option for dispatch. Its vital to the publics safety
    that those warrant and ex partes (orders of protection) stay in the system and if Ralls 911 wont
    process those records, the State requires another 24-hour station that will. Ill have to either hire a
    minimum of four civilian employees, or for about the same cost, move the services to a neighboring
    911 center, which I think would be better because they would already know how to manage all of
    that.
    The Sheriffs Office along with police departments from the cities of New London, Center, and Perry
    migrated services to Marion County 911 this afternoon. Marion 911 had served as an operational
    backup to Ralls and was able to take on the additional workload with minimal notice.

    For Further Information Contact:


    Chief Deputy Ronald Haught
    Cell: 573-629-5564
    rhaught@rallscountysheriff.com

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