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Buxton Police Department Annual Report January 1 st , 2023 – December 31 st , 2023 Chief Kevin R. Collins Dispatcher Pennell

the new system equipment for the sites around town should be delivered, configured, and tested prior to installation and deployment sometime in the Spring of 2024. The Buxton Public Safety team has been tirelessly working alongside our Radio Management Company (RCM) to ensure that this new system is the best possible upgrade within budgetary guidelines, to best serve the Town of Buxton. The entire system should be operational sometime at the end of Spring or early Summer of 2024.

Dispatch Services:

From January 1 st , 2023, through December 31 st , 2023, the Buxton

DISPATCH STAFF Dispatcher Jeremy Gagne Dispatcher Jacob Wells Dispatcher Matthew Dahms

Communications Center logged 25,213 calls. These were calls for Police, Fire and EMS services or calls requiring both

departments together, as well as calls that did not require emergency response units such as Community Cares calls, Court Ordered Check-Ins, and Informational Calls, as a few examples. The chart shows a decrease of 5% from the 26,428 calls in 2022 and shows that the town, in just three years, experienced a drastic increase in calls for service from the 14,523 calls in 2020. Dispatcher Kayla Grover Dispatcher Aubrey Pennell

The Buxton Police Department as a whole strives to expand and improve to meet the needs of the residents and help protect all those living or traveling through the town of Buxton. It is our duty to defend the lives and property of the very people we serve. To decrease the frequency and fear of crime, and strengthen public safety, while working with the community to improve all quality of life. We aim to do so with courage and honesty, while conducting with high moral standards.

Police/Fire/EMS 1685

2023 CALLS FOR SERVICE

Fire/EMS 1960

Police 11350

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