MERCER COUNTY 911 Wheatland, W. Middlesex lack emergency phones

One official said he might have a solution for the two municipalities.
FARRELL, Pa. -- Most Mercer County municipalities with their own police departments had emergency telephones installed outside their police stations when they joined the Mercer County Enhanced 911 dispatch center.
The police stations were generally closed for the afternoon and midnight shifts once they no longer had their own dispatcher. The phones were installed so that anyone going to the police station in an emergency could pick up the phone and immediately be in contact with the 911 center.
West Middlesex and Wheatland, which are part of the Southwest Mercer County Regional Police Department, don't have those emergency phones at their municipal buildings.
One at Farrell station
Farrell, the third member of the Southwest police department and the location of the Southwest police station, has one, and Police Chief Riley Smoot said it would probably be up to the other municipalities to bear the cost of having phones installed at their buildings.
However, James DeCapua, chairman of the Southwest Mercer County Regional Police Commission, said he recalled that the police commission paid for the phone at the Farrell city building and perhaps could pay for phones in Wheatland and West Middlesex, too.
Smoot said the police department has been given a grant of $5,000 from the Duferco Farrell Corp. and DeCapua said the commission could tap that money to pay for the emergency phones.
He asked Smoot to check on the cost of installation and bring that information back to the commission.