The Desoto County Sheriff’s Department’s dispatch center is a 24 hour 7 day a week operation. We currently have 18 dispatchers that field calls (emergency and non-emergency) and dispatch emergency responders such as Desoto County Sheriff deputies; Walls police department, 8 fire departments, 3 county ambulances, animal control, EMA, Civil Defense, Search and rescue, Court Bailiffs, Constables, and many other duties.
Our dispatch center answers and dispatches over 60,000 calls per year. That is approximately 5000 calls per month with 1600 per month or more being actual 911 calls. The rest of the calls are answered via non- emergency line.