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when emergencies happen whether fire flood snow landslide or traffic crash it's not just the police who are needed fast communication between emergency responders is vital to keeping the public safe in the past dispatchers for the oregon state police had to literally pick up the phone to let other agencies like the oregon department of transportation know that an incident had occurred at the transportation operations centers it meant losing precious minutes and the possibility of information errors it's important for odot to get the information quickly so that we can actually get responders out on the street so oregon's transportation department known as odot teamed up with the oregon state police and 11 different oregon counties to fix the problem using a grant from the department of homeland security odot managed the creation of a new system called the oregon interoperability system or ois which sends information from a dispatch center like oregon state police into a central hub whic