After days of resorting to old techniques to track calls for service when their dispatch system crashed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says that they’ve successfully found a temporary fix for the issue.
The Computer Aided Dispatch system, which the department says is nearly 40 years old, began to experience problems at around 8 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, which was noticed when patrol stations were having difficulty logging onto their patrol car’s mobile digital computers.
It persisted for days, with stations instead turning back to manually tracking when and where deputies were dispatched…