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Local dispatcher honored this week in "Why I Wear The Badge"

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A local Bakersfield Police Dispatcher is honored this week as part of the department's "Why I Wear the Badge" segment.

Without them handling the over 750,000 calls into the 9-1-1 center that were received last year, the department could not function.

Today Dispatcher Alison Webb, sharing her story of being on the line with an elderly woman as her home was being burglarized. 
 

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