Recording shows sheriff's department was the first called

scottw@standard-democrat.com

CHARLESTON -- Dispatchers at the 911 center in Charleston actually did call the sheriff first.

During the May 30 Mississippi County Commission meeting, Sheriff Keith Moore told commissioners protocol had not been followed by dispatchers for a May 27 call of a man missing from his boat on Upper Big Lake where he was fishing.

Robert Hearnes, director of the Charleston Department of Public Safety, played a recording during the regular County Commission meeting Thursday on which the 911 dispatcher can be heard receiving the call and then immediately calling the sheriff's department dispatch.

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