Where the Break Room Author Works

Here's a pretty close picture of the work station at the Black Radio Console. You can't see the information displayed on the screen in front of the dispatcher, due to the flash when the picture was taken. (If I recall correctly, it was vehicle registration of some sort...)

You'll notice the Simplex time-clock immediately next to the computer monitor. Since we aren't a CAD operation, we have to time-stamp everything; the pre-printed Complaint and Field Service Request cards are multi-purpose and are used as documentation for all incident and unit history.

The COII in this picture is reading a Complaint card written by another COII at the Service Desk.

The "touch-screen radio" screen is out of the picture frame to the left.

The picture below and to the right shows a view taken from behind the Black Radio, towards the Green Radio and its jurisdiction map. You can see a little bit into the Communications Supervisors' Office (where I'm NOT sitting).

Both pictures on this page were taken by Evan Platt.

The ambient light in these pictures is a little low, simply because the graveyard shift turns off one bank of flourescent lights. (We hope to be getting individual canister lights for each console, controlled by the COII, in the not-too-distant future.)

One facility upgrade we are anticipating is the installation of windows to the outside world some time before the end of the year!

July 22nd, 1997 -- our windows!

Click here for some more photos of the Comm Center.