Is the 911 emergency system in Suffolk County connected (shared/routed) to anybody in Oak Beach? Does Oak Beach have residents who volunteer their services in the event that a 911 call is pinged on their tower? Any medical or first-to-respond personnel in the Oak Beach gated community volunteering in that capacity? Finally, does anybody in the Oak Beach community possess a phone fetish that even he finds difficult to control?
Hello Adler and welcome to this discussion.
I have followed this case from inception and can shed some light on your questions about the 911 system.
- When SG made her 911 call, she had no clue where she was. She hinted that she could have been on Fire Island. When she made that statement, her call was transferred over to the State Park Police dispatcher who handles Jones Beach State Park. This action uncovered a major flaw in the 911 cell phone system; one department does not communicate with another departments. Jones Beach is in Nassau County. The park is a STATE PARK that is patrolled by NY State Park Police. Their dispatchers don't use the same information system as Suffolk County PD (where SG actually was).
- When GC made his 911 call, he called from his landline. The call went into the SUFFOLK County 911 system where the Marine Bureau of the Babylon 1st Precint was given the call. Same for the 2nd and 3rd 911 calls that came from other neighbors in the community. The problem was that Suffolk County 911 dispatch had ZERO knowledge that SG made her 911 call. Therefore, the officer who responded to the neighborhood calls was simply looking for a girl who was running around the neighborhood in a panic (he had no idea that the girl called for help and said she was going to be killed).
As far as a neighborhood watch or someone within the community who police would contact... well that does not exist anywhere around New York. There are even residents who live in the community who are active as well as retired police officers (and still there is no contact system to have them respond in the absence of law enforcement on duty).