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Montgomery County and Precinct 3 report falling crime trends, describe tech and overtime used to target theft and exploitation
Summary
Sheriff’s office and Precinct 3 constable presented a second-quarter update to The Woodlands Township board highlighting declining overall crime, proactive overtime-funded patrols, a bank-‘jugging’ enforcement operation, expanded technology use including Flock cameras and robotics, and arrests from child-exploitation and interdiction units.
The Woodlands Township board on Wednesday heard a second-quarter law enforcement update from Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and Montgomery County Constable Precinct 3 that described falling crime trends, use of township-funded overtime patrols and technology, and a series of targeted operations against bank-following thefts and child exploitation.
Montgomery County Captain Ryan Drody told the board that 12-month crime trends are “trending down” and that calls for service remain steady as the county enters summer months. Drody said deputies began tracking overtime and productivity starting June 1; from that date through mid-June deputies worked 314 hours of proactively directed overtime in township areas, focused around the Town Center, Market Street and the mall. He said that overtime patrols resulted in 11 arrests and cited one traffic…
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