The City of Yankton Communications Center is the primary Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) for the residents of the City of Yankton and Yankton County and a small portion of Northeast Nebraska that lies along our border to the south. We serve a population of approximately 22,500 providing a vital link between the citizens of our county and the emergency service responders that we dispatch. We are the “first” First Responders on the scene of every incident. Our eleven full-time staff are highly trained professionals that complete a minimum of 12 weeks of training with our department including emergency medical, fire and law enforcement dispatch certification prior to attending state certification training in Pierre, SD.

Our communications center operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to handle all emergency and non-emergency calls that originate within the area that we serve. In 2023, we handled 19,822 calls for service which included 2,017 medical emergencies, 194 fire calls, 75 injury accidents, and 236 domestic violence calls. The agencies that we provide dispatch services for include the Yankton Police Department, Yankton County Sheriff’s Office, Yankton County Ambulance, Yankton Fire Department, South Dakota Highway Patrol (Vermillion Squad), Yankton County Emergency Management, Yankton County Search & Rescue, Yankton County Coroner, four county fire departments and five first responder groups, Animal Control, and City of Yankton Utilities.

The City of Yankton Communication staff members are dedicated to serving the residents, visitors and responders within our community with the most accurate and timely dispatch service for all calls requiring law enforcement, medical or fire response.