Outside of the urban centers, when you make an emergency call to the Ontario Provincial Police it goes to Smiths Falls, in Eastern Ontario. But the O.P.P. has announced that is will be closing its East Region communications center over the next year affecting around 100 civilian employees who will potentially be offered transfers. Call taking and dispatch duties for all of Eastern Ontario will move to Orillia in Central Ontario – 330 kilometers away from Smiths Falls and almost 500 kilometers from SD&G. An O.P.P. spokesman insists that after a “comprehensive review” that “there will be no impact on front-line policing within the communities we serve,” he told the Smiths Falls Record News.