Police response will be delayed

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Police response to non-emergency calls in Anne Arundel will be delayed today as workers fix a severed fiber optics cable that allows operators to dispatch calls quickly to county police officers.

A contractor accidentally cut a fiber optics cable in the police department’s computer-aided dispatch system today during renovation work to the system, said Sgt. John Gilmer, police spokesman.

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