Innovation and a little hard work can mean efficiency in law enforcement.  Efficiency and law enforcement are not often used together in a comparative analysis.  That needs to change!  Any mission supported by your hard earned tax dollars needs to be efficient as possible.

Imagine if an “information delivery” business was run like the following example.  Information needs to be collected from every part of the county and returned to the Law Enforcement Center on an hourly basis.  The president of the business sends the “delivery driver” out in a large, eight-cylinder Ford Crown Victoria to collect the information.  The delivery driver must then drive back to the Law Enforcement Center with that information and put it on the “information box.”  While this is process is being completed, it is consuming 20 or 30 minutes of the delivery driver’s time and gallons of gas to make this information delivery. 

The above scenario is how the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office inefficiently collects and processes incident reports.  That is inefficient. That is your tax dollars needlessly running up and down the roads of Pickens County.

Innovation and efficiency demand a more efficient Report Management System for a true progressive Sheriff’s Office.  Under Sheriff Clark, wireless hotspots will be set up in patrol zones and in your communities to send back reports electronically to the Sheriff’s Office from the patrol car. 

Ask yourself if you want deputies at the Law Enforcement Center, 20 minutes away from your house, typing reports or in your community sending the reports in electronically as you see to the right!

Sheriff Clark's answer will be to keep deputies in your community!

Sheriff Clark's plan consist of the following:

• Installing laptops in patrol cars to allow deputies to complete incident reports in their communities and not at the Law Enforcement Center in Pickens.
  
  
• Placing wireless hotspots at strategic locations across Pickens County so deputies can access the information network they need to get information they need and send back reports from the communities they are protecting.
  
  
• Some of these hotspots will be at the Sheriff's Office substations. Most of these hotspots will be at schools, churches, convenience stores or other places that deputies need to be seen other than the Law Enforcement Center. It is only common sense that a deputy should be in their community, not at the Sheriff's Office.
  
  
• Implementing standardized technology is cheap when compared against taking deputies out of our communities and wasting gallons of expensive gas that is paid for by your tax dollars! We can combine common sense and technology to provide the deputy the best tools available and save the taxpayer's dollar!

These $60 wireless routers, placed strategically across the county, can save hundreds of gallons of gas a year and your tax dollars! The future of the Sheriff's Office demands this type of forward, common sense thinking!

Why aren't we doing this now? It is time for a new generation of law enforcement in Pickens County!