The department has dispatched more appropriate investigative personnel to the scene.

Our crime-scene guys pulled up stakes yesterday, so the department dispatched a car to investigate.

Since the heat wave began, the department has dispatched crews on hydrant patrols throughout the city.

As a result, the department dispatched similar teams to other neighborhoods beset by drugs.

The state highway patrol and the sheriff's department dispatched units to control the heavy flow of traffic that for more than eight hours clogged the eastbound lanes.

The department then dispatched an inspector, who, noticing the missing spires and the scaffolding, issued two citations to the contractor.

On any other Monday, the department would have dispatched only 904 trucks.

Mr. Lavorgna said the department closed the bridge and dispatched its repair contractor to fix the pier.

In September, the department dispatched troops to various locations to help oversee the military draft.

The deficit grew by the hour when the department dispatched its full complement of 597 plows and salt spreaders around the northern third of the state.