For several months, DeWitt County's first responding agencies have been looking forward to upgrades coming to its communications.

DeWitt County Sheriff Mike Walker indicates those upgrades went live this month and the early reports are very positive.

Tony Harris is the Director of the DeWitt County 9-1-1 center and indicates this new system has already proven it will be better than what was in place before in DeWitt County.

Sheriff Walker points out the County has not had its communications equipment updated in some time and feels this was a worthwhile expenditure of the COVID money the County has.

Many have been hearing about the NextGen 9-1-1. Sheriff Walker explains this project is completely different from that effort which is aimed at easier avenues for the public to report emergencies to authorities.