The Platte County Sheriff’s Office is moving ahead in technology to make processing crime and accident scenes easier.
At the Monday, Sept. 23 administrative session of the Platte County Commission, Major Erik Holland presented an order for the purchase of a three-dimensional scanner for the crash and investigations divisions at a cost of about $63,0000 for approval.
“As we’ve moved forward in time, the days of sketching accident scenes and crime scenes with pads and pencils are way past us,” Holland said. “We’ve been able to acquire this 3D scanner at a substantial discount through the state contract.”
The scanner allows more thorough analysis of crash and crime scenes, increasing the detail the Sheriff’s Office can bring to the courtroom.
Several grant agreements were also approved.
Platte County currently serves as the fiscal agent for the State Drug Task Force and has received more than $530,000 in grant funding, which will fund the Platte County Drug Task Force, Kansas City Drug Task Force and Jackson County Drug Task Force.
A $150,000 grant was awarded for dedicated impaired driving enforcement officers; a $138,000 grant was awarded for hazardous moving violation enforcement officers; an additional $100,000 in overtime funding for impaired driving enforcement was also approved; also approved was overtime for hazardous moving violation enforcement at $56,000.
Also at the meeting, commissioners announced the Platte County property tax levies would be set at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, after the Citizen’s deadline. A public hearing – with no members of the public participating – was held at the close of the Sept. 23 meeting, as was a vote to reinstate the tax ceilings for the Platte County general fund, for Drainage District No. 1 and the Road and Bridge levy. The levy ceilings were set at .3160 cents, .0960 cents, and .3310 cents, respectively.