The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department temporarily fixed a systemwide outage of its computer dispatch system for patrol vehicles after three days of communication through radio only, impacting a service area of 3.5 million people. Sheriff Robert G. Luna attributed the outage to the outdated 38-year-old system, which required deputies to revert to pen and paper for dispatches, slowing down operations. Despite the setback, the department’s response to calls for service remained intact, with radio communications and 911 lines unaffected.
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