Rutherford County Sheriff's Office finishing up installation of tracking devices

Mar 25, 2013 at 05:00 am by bryan


The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office is wrapping up a yearlong project of installing tracking devices in all patrol cars. The electronics will allow for dispatch to see where deputy vehicles are in real time. Sheriff Robert Arnold told WGNS…

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The Sheriff’s Department purchased the AVL units with the help of a grant. AVL stands for Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) system. The Sheriff’s Office also bought GPS units with the grant that totaled over $37,000.

When the grant was awarded to the Sheriff’s Office, a similar grant was approved for the Murfreesboro Police Department. The city used the money to buy two-way radios and laptop computers with printers.

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Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold
“Public Notice” Filed in 2011 by the Murfreesboro Police Dept.
U.S. Dept. of Transportation – See how the AVL works

 

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