Elizabethtown Police Chief Jeremy Thompson, Radcliff Police Chief Jeff Cross, and Hardin County Sheriff John Ward joined Hardin County Schools Superintendent Terry Morgan and representatives from Flock Safety during a press conference at the HCS district office Monday.
Thompson said the city is adding 10 Flock cameras to the 20 already in place, and Hardin County Schools will be adding a total of 20 across the district’s school campuses, which along with the cameras being added in Radcliff will create a strong network throughout the county.
Thompson said in their first year of operation in E-Town the cameras were used in at least 175 investigations, and expanding the safety network Flock helps create to the area schools is a logical next step.
“Each of the departments represented today have officers within the city and county schools protecting our children, protecting our staff, and we thought Flock is another great way to add additional layers of security to those schools, so that led us to the broader conversation of what we can do to improve upon that,” Thompson said.
Cross said the cameras are a valuable tool as crime has no jurisdiction.
“They’re in and out of all of our communities, and there’s a lot of folks that commit crimes that come into our communities from elsewhere, so the Flock is an instant line of communication for us to be able to communicate and get on top of these crimes that are committed very quickly,” Cross said.
Ward said the cameras provide additional eyes for law enforcement when additional eyes are harder to come by.
“For the past several years, I know ever since I’ve been in law enforcement, we’ve had to do more with less, and this Flock camera technology is a huge asset in helping us accomplish this,” Ward said.
Ward said any area business that might be interested in having a camera added at their location can contact the sheriff’s office for more information.
