I recently decided to try to use the "coverage area" setting in the Dispatch centre for handling islands of the coast of the UK. Specically in this case the Isle of Scilly.
The area has 5x Fire Stations and all of them are assigned to the dispatch centre which has the "create your own coverage area" setting enabled. This should mean that no mission can spawn that require a speciality unit requiring 6 more stations if im understand this setting correctly. In this instance, Fire Offciers which are stated to be required once of you have built 6 stations. However, a mission requiring FOs has been spawned by one of these stations
So either this dispatch centre setting doesnt override stations else where or it is not functioning correctly or this mission should unlock after 6 fire stations not 3.
Buying FOs is little more than a minor inconvenience at this time, but if missions start spawning that require more speciality units, it could be a major issue and defeat the entire point of this setting