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The Olney Police and Young County Sheriff ’s departments each received funding this fiscal year to install a computerized dispatch system that would instantly share information about emergency calls between deputies and Olney officers. The Copsync computer-aided dispatch (CAD) is an add-on to the COPsync system that Olney and the Sheriff ’s Department already use separately to keep track of dispatch calls and to write reports. The Sheriff ’s Department performs dispatch duties for Olney between 4 p.m. and 8 a.m., when OPD Dispatcher Deena Clarke is off duty. The CAD creates shared records of 911 calls and immediately sends information about previous calls about a particular address or person to officers responding to calls. It also can compile real-time reports about major incidents for police investigators, if necessary.