TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) - Three Leon County emergency dispatchers have been fired for not following protocol when alerting responders of the fire that resulted in the shooting death of a Leon County deputy Chris Smith.
Tim Lee, the director of the joint Consolidated Dispatch Agency, said that a 911 call taker and two dispatchers did not provide information to first repsonders to warn them of potential safety hazards. Because of this, Lee says that they were fired.
The Consolidated Dispatch Agency Board held a meeting Friday to discuss possible problems with the response to that specific incident.
In a statement released following the meeting, the agency said that the dispatchers did not alert "responding units to the notations regarding previous threatening actions by the tenant at the address."
The statement says that three dispatchers were fired, and a fourth dispatcher, who was in training at the time, is suspended without pay for two weeks.
In the report from the investigation, the agency concluded that the dispatcher did enter an officer safety hazard into the system. The report says the call taker did not pass on that information and that the responders would have been able to access it if told.
You can click the link on the side to see the full statement as well as the investigation report.
