The Calaveras County Sheriff's Department Communications Center is located in the Government Center in San Andreas. It is the Communication Center that the Dispatcher calls home. Dispatchers work around the clock 24 hours a day 7 days a week to provide communication between the citizens of Calaveras County and the deputies and ambulances working the streets.



It is the job of the Dispatcher to answer all 911 calls, most of the non emergency and business calls, operate and monitor multiple radio channels, dispatch sheriff deputies and ambulances by radio and telephone, and perform records tasks and warrants checks. Most of the time, the dispatcher is required to perform all of these tasks at once.

Using a Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, radios, sophisticated telephone services, and utilizing all possible resources available, the Communications Center does it's very best to be sure that the citizens receive the services they need.