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You would be incorrect. I am an a dispatcher for Police, Fire and EMS. I take both non-emergency and 911 calls as well as communicate over the radio, many times doing both at the same time. As well as take care of public records, people that walk into my lobby and often times do the officer's jobs for them when it comes to simple things (such as looking up phone numbers, calling people for them, looking up information in the CAD, everything an officer is more than capable of doing on their own)
And to further on that, people are not educated on how to properly use 911. Your dog running away is not a life, limb or property threatening emergency. That's just one example of the many things people call 911 for.
Fire departments are a giant pain in the ass. They always want everything perfect and many policies are ridiculous, so I can see that.
 
I'm saying you do not want to be a dispatcher because you are under appreciated, make shit money for all the work you do and get treated like shit by both the public and those that you work with. On top of all that, going along with the under appreciated aspect of the work, we hardly receive any additional, usually important training because command staff and administration doesn't think we "need" to have it. I just today went and got certified in Crisis Negotiation today. I was fortunate in that I work for a smaller department and I had the chance to go. I mean how do dispatchers not "need" training on crisis negotiation or active shooters when we are often the very first person that the suspect will talk to in an incident.
This may not be everywhere but every dispatcher from other agencies I've talked to feels the same way. Many agencies no longer have in-house dispatch services, and are in centralized dispatch centers and are responsible for many departments (Two near me are both responsible for over 20 Fire and Police agencies). I'm fortunate that I work in an agency that only dispatches for one department.
My point is, it's not what you see on TV. Many times with 911 Calls they are cellular and we truly have no idea where the caller is at. There has been many times I've been pranked and there was nothing I could do because it was a deactivated phone with no good call back number and no location. 
I could go on and on about the cons of dispatching. Not to say there isn't some good in it, because there is, but generally most days are not *good* days. I'm fortunate I have a job however I can't wait until I finish my academy and get out on the road and out of the radio room.
 
The job wouldn't be as bad if the general public knew how to correctly use the 911 system, learn real emergencies from things that aren't, if officers had to spend a week dispatching so they would cut their attitudes on the radio and not ask stupid questions (that happens a lot), if the fire department could get a grip on things and not have to have EVERYTHING REPEATED BACK TO THEM because they can never hear it the first time... I mean I could go on and on for real. I love helping people that need help, don't get me wrong. It's just the shear stupidity from those that don't truly need help, or an officer's attitude or the Fire Chief's nasty-gram because I made one SIMPLE mistake that make it miserable to come to work every day. I WISH I didn't feel like this and I WISH that I could help make necessary changes to make life better for everyone that works in public safety.

Glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem.
 
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