NEWTON FALLS — As the Ohio State Highway Patrol investigates the train wreck that crushed a Newton Township police cruiser, the Newton Falls police chief is investigating his dispatch’s handling of the situation.

Dispatchers were not told the cruiser was parked on train tracks on Miller Graber Road, according to radio transmissions, but they were told almost 13 minutes before the crash that an officer was chasing suspects along the tracks. They were asked to call the train company and notify workers that people were on the tracks.

Falls police Chief Robert Carlson said this concerns him.

‘‘Dispatch basically is a lifeline for the officer out there,’’ Carlson said.

Carlson qualified the statement by saying even if the train was notified, there was not a sign along the tracks that said where Miller Graber Road was, and it could take up to two miles before the train stopped completely.