Letters / By far the best way
Tavish Scott is quite right about his demands for a local emergency control room (Calls for single local emergency control room; SN, 25/02/14) and deserves community support.
A single control room for all of Shetland’s emergency services looks by far the best way to co-ordinate call-outs and avoid possibly tragic consequences from the misunderstandings, delays and confusion that might result from remote central control.
There are indeed financial benefits from centralisation but this is about public safety and that must be any government’s first priority.
Cllr. Jonathan Wills
Town Hall
Lerwick
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