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Telecommunicator / Communications Cook County Sheriff's Police Department
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- The Cook County Sheriffs Police Department Emergency Communications Center, located in Des Plaines, Illinois is seeking applicants for the position of Telecommunicator.
- The center continues to rapidly grow as additional agencies are consolidated into the Cook County ETSB. The service population is increasing from 208,000 to 275,000 residents in 2021.
- View our recruitment video at The Emergency Communications Center is multi-jurisdictional operation that receives and dispatches police, fire and emergency medical service requests for service in Cook County, as well as Metra rail lines located in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kenosha (WI), Lake, McHenry and Will counties.
- The Telecommunicator position supports a twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) days a week operation where applicants must have the ability to work rotating shifts that include weekends and holidays.
- The Telecommunicator, from the information received, determines the nature of the call (police, fire, EMS, or other emergency) and assigns its priority using designated codes and dispatches the appropriate beat car to the scene using the radio and P1 CAD system.
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