BA> I don't know how it's done in Europe,

   Neither do I, but in Sweden we have 19 stations evenly spread over the
country. With us having 1/30th of the US population that should scale up to
570 stations over at your place.

 BA> (Iowa has about 90 of those, and Nebraska has 93).

   That's interesting. If those numbers are typical for the rest of the US
that means you have abt. 5,000 stations. Far less than the 60.000 that Dale
guessed for, even if you double the number to compensate the more populated
states.

 BA> The operations center is usually co-located with the county sheriff's
 BA> office and dispatcher

   So one could say that it's usually not a full time job (the operators
perform other duties between calls)?

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