Employees at the Kewaunee Dispatch Center heard less from you in 2021.

Approximately 9,000 calls were handled by Kewaunee County Dispatch last year, which were a little down from 2019 and 2020. The number of rescue calls did go up by over 100 to 1287 in 2021, which includes people calling with medical emergencies. Kewaunee County Sheriff Matt Joski says the advent of cell phones has led to a large number of calls for both good and bad reasons. Many of the 990 calls determined to be 911 hang-ups were on cell phones, but they were also used heavily for the county’s 273 traffic offense notifications.

He credits his employees in the dispatch center for being able to handle a lot of information at once and coordinate deputies and other emergency personnel to go to the right spot. You can read a more in-depth view of the numbers below.