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My wife has been a police/fire/EMS dispatcher since 1995. The turnover is a real pain. Finding people who can do the job is hard. Background checks. Ability to multitask. Ability to complete the training. Officer safety awareness. Good intuition in finding support information "on the fly" when requested via radio. Stress takes many of them. Better job offers, moves to another area, pregnancy and unforgivable errors on the job take more. Two current members of the staff are going from a home sale/move to Boise and another from pregnancy. Just completed training two new hires. Fifteen weeks of training to reach the level that can be trusted to operate unassisted. Barely two weeks after being "signed off", one of them gets a much better paying offer from the FBI. Hiring reqs are out again. Backgrounds, drug tests, voice stress analysis interviews, then whittle down the applicants. Meanwhile, the remaining staff shoulders 12 on / 12 off shifts to keep the place together.