Individual State Reports
The following reports contain comments from each Model State Coordinator that reflects achievements, issues or items that may be of particular interest to participants of that state or other readers. A complete month to month chronological history for each state is available for review at the web site
www.airef.org.
Illinois was the start-up state for the project. The first state coordinator Dan Petesch was hired on March 24, 1997. His office space was generously donated by Chief David Dial and located within the Naperville Police Department. It should be noted that Elgin, was one the original "Model Cities" and dispatch reduction efforts have been quite extensive in this area of Illinois for over five years!
Liaisons for the Illinois Model State Program included:
General Overview of the 8 Participating Jurisdictions:
Itasca, Lombard, Mundelein, Naperville, Rolling Meadows, Tinley Park, Wheaton, Wilmette
| The number of false alarms were: | ||||
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| TOTAL | Residential | Commercial | ||
| 1996 | 17588 | NA | NA | |
| 1997 | 16445 | NA | NA | |
| 1998 | 16026 | 5489 | 10537 | 8.9% REDUCTION (from ’96) |
| 1999(3 mo) | 3642 | 1257 | 2385 | |
| 1999(proj.) | 14568 | 5028 | 9540 | |
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| MODEL STATES REPORT Best Practices in Reducing False Dispatches | |
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