Richmond, Va. (Newsradiowrva.com) - Statewide technology updates to the Virginia State Police emergency dispatch phone systems have resulted in new non-emergency phone numbers for each of VSP's seven field divisions.
The switch -- from an antiquated analog telephone system to a digital system -- will generate approximately $250,000 in annual savings for state police. The upgrade does not impact #77 or the toll-free numbers assigned to each state police field division.
“The transition to the new phone numbers will be seamless, and we have built in an overlap period that allows the old phone numbers to still accept calls," says Captain Thomas A. Bradshaw, Division Commander of the Virginia State Police Communications Division. "Those calls will automatically forward to its corresponding new number for up to 30 days, then an announcement will advise the caller of the updated phone number.”
The following are the new Virginia State Police Emergency Dispatch Center non-emergency contact numbers:
• Wytheville Division IV: 1-540-444-7788
• Culpeper Division II: 1-804-750-8778
• Chesapeake Division V: 1-804-750-8788
• Salem Division VI: 1-540-444-7798
• Appomattox Division III: 1-540-444-7778
• Fairfax Division VII: 1-804-750-8798
• Richmond Division I: 1-804-750-8758