Once a year, the Sheriff's Office is required to test its backup emergency dispatch center and tonight's the night for dispatchers to work out of the location at 14 W. Main St., instead of their normal home on Park Road.
The facility is configured exactly like Park Road for an easy transition from one location to the other.
The backup facility would be used if Park Road couldn't be used for some reason.
The room in the old Sheriff's Office on West Main was the dispatch center for the Sheriff's Office for decades before the Park Road office was built.
These days, emergency dispatchers handle all traffic in the county for the Sheriff's road patrols, Batavia PD, Le Roy PD, State Police and the fire departments.
Dispatchers handle somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 calls for service annually.
