CARROLLTON — Carroll County Sheriff Clint Walker has told the Board of Supervisors that the county’s new law enforcement software “will catch us up with the day and age that we live in.”
Supervisors approved the purchase of a web-based software package from eFORCE for $51,422 on Monday. The money will come from the Sheriff’s Department depreciation fund.
eFORCE, a Utah-based company, says its system assists in dispatch, the collection and distribution of information during calls, incident report writing and collecting background information on suspects.
Walker and Chief Deputy Adam Eubanks endorsed the eFORCE system before the supervisors’ vote, saying Greenwood and Grenada police already use it.
Eubanks said the system could be installed within a month, with the company coming in to do a three-day training session for law enforcement and E911 personnel.
Carroll County Sanitation Department Clerk Dorothy Prewitt reviewed the list of unpaid garbage collection fees with the supervisors. Vehicle tag holds were attached to many of them.
When asked the amount of the outstanding fees, Board President Rickie Corley said it was approximately “half a million dollars.”
In other business, the board:
•Approved the purchase by the county’s ambulance service, MedStat, of a trailer that can be used to haul supplies or provide sleeping accommodations for emergency workers. The purchase is being paid for by a state grant, which will also fund buying two dual-band radios.
•Approved advertising bids on box culverts and approaches on County Road 47 in Beats 4 and 5 and County Roads 157 and 45 in Beat 4. Bids on both projects will be opened at 10 a.m. Sept. 5 at the Carrollton courthouse.
