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Sheriff’s Office pitches countywide license-plate reader network; finance staff to explore funding path
Summary
Bedford County Sheriff’s Office and vendor Flock Safety presented a plan to install license-plate–reading cameras at county entry points to aid investigations, amber/silver alerts and burglary response. Staff will examine budget and capital options; no procurement vote was taken.
The Bedford County Sheriff’s Office on Monday presented a proposal to install a countywide network of license-plate–reading cameras from vendor Flock Safety, saying the system would help locate stolen vehicles, speed amber- and silver-alert responses and improve burglary investigations.
Chief Deputy Elliott, who led the department’s review of the technology, said the cameras would give investigators immediate leads in vehicle-based cases and link Bedford County to a regional network of cameras already used by nearby agencies. “When you start thinking about the call and the reporting and trying to get all the information so that you can get it, and then getting it pushed out to everybody, that’s extremely fast,” Elliott said.
Flock Safety territory manager Will Pepper described the vendor’s Falcon license-plate reader and a…
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