The Communications Center serves as Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) for Cornelius and Davidson College . The center is housed by and is a function of the Cornelius Police Department, but is managed through an interlocal agreement between Cornelius and Davidson College.

Business/Records Offices of Individual Police Departments
Served by Communications:

Monday - Friday 8am to 5pm

Cornelius Police Department: 704-892-1363
Davidson College Campus Safety: 704-894-2178
Non-Emergency # for Cornelius Police Department & Davidson College Police: 704-892-7773

Mission Statement

Our mission is to ensure the safety of the public by making speed, accuracy and professionalism a priority when gathering information to relay to the Emergency personnel that provides service to the citizens and visitors of the North Mecklenburg area. We are committed to exemplary customer service in an unbiased, fair and ethical manner with compassion and integrity.

History of the Cornelius Police Communications Division

The Cornelius Police Department Communications Division has been proudly serving the citizens of Cornelius, North Carolina, since 1993 and the students of Davidson College, Davidson, since March 1999. We are a primary public safety answering point (PSAP) whose highly trained telecommunicators handle routine and emergency calls for police, fire and medic and local government agencies.

When the Communications Division receives your call, it is processed using the Plant/CML Patriot phone system. The system is equipped with 3 administrative lines and 6 emergency 9-1-1 lines. This system automatically identifies and displays the telephone number and location of Land Line of emergency callers. It also recognizes TTY/TDD calls from non-voice communications devices. The phone system is integrated with the Sunguard OSSI mapping system, which maps the location of these callers including most wireless callers. Calls are dispatched on Motorola MCC 7500 Elite consoles.