NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
April 23, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

UPDATE: DISPATCH NUMBERS BACK IN SERVICE

      The dispatch numbers for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office (651-7400 and 689-5705) are now in service. The lines had gone down earlier Wednesday due to an equipment failure at the provider’s central office in Crestview. 

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OCSO COMMUNICATIONS NUMBERS OUT OF SERVICE TEMPORARILY 

    The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office main dispatch numbers, 651-7400 and 689-5705, are temporarily out of service due to a fiber optic cable being cut somewhere in north Okaloosa County.

    No calls can be accepted until further notice. Communications staff is working to try to acquire back-up as quickly as possible.

    The County’s 9-1-1 system however is operational because those calls are being routed through another agency.

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