Grand theft auto harder than it used to be

A man in the College Station apartments became convinced that someone stole his car on Tuesday and called the police.

A city officer arrived, conducted interviews and filed an incident report. In the end, it turned out that that man's car was towed at the request of the property manager, but the incident report included one interesting section. The officer, according to the incident report, "performed a search of the Flock Security System and the car hit once today at 212 and Lumpkin Road southbound at 1340 hours." The officer was able to perform the search in real-time on his in-car computer. The man told the officer that the "hit" on Ga. 212 "was him coming into town" earlier in the day.

There are now roughly six dozen Flock cameras around Milledgeville/Baldwin County. The cameras record video, and they also record and document license plate hits. The Flock cameras resemble solar panels, and many motorists in Milledgeville have probably seen them and mistaken them for solar panels...

According to the company's website, "7/10 crimes are committed with the use of a vehicle. Capture the vehicle details you need to track leads and solve crime. Flock Safety’s patented Vehicle Fingerprint™ technology lets you search by vehicle make, color, type, license plate, state of the license plate, missing plate, covered plate, paper plate, and unique vehicle details like roof racks, bumper stickers, and more."

The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office debuted its first 10 Flock cameras last spring. The Milledgeville Police Department also has a flock, strategically placed around town. The Flock system also ties into the local RedSpeed cameras, including the ones in front of Baldwin High, John Milledge Academy and Georgia Military College. 

^^^CLICK HERE for more