As human traffickers advance, so are tools at the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office to catch them
GRAYSON COUNTY, Texas (KXII) - The Grayson County Sheriff’s Office is working diligently to keep up with criminals advancing their schemes in trafficking millions of people across international and state borders.
Tuesday’s county commissioner approval allowed the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office to enter a program that Captain Mark Kosemund from the sheriff’s office says would give them access to more advanced tools to catch these perpetrators and rescue others, quicker.
“We already have some of this technology,” said Kosemund. “We have six units currently deployed in the field on mobile units and then we have two trailer-based units at the sheriff’s office that we put along different highways.”
Operation Underground Railroad Rescue, now known as Our Rescue, aims to eliminate human, and specifically, child trafficking internationally. They assist law enforcement agencies by supplying funds for advanced digital forensic hardware in investigations or tools to use out in the field.
The sheriff’s office says this new partnership will add six stationery cameras to be placed around Grayson County where needed and two new license-plate reader cameras that would be placed on the push-bumper or on top of the unit.
The good news is that it’s no extra cost to county residents, but the bad news is that human trafficking is ever-present everywhere. Even in Grayson County.
“Unfortunately in some of the hotels where we’ve had it in the past dealing with some prostitution,” said Kosemund. “Almost every community in the United States, there’s always going to be some type of child sexual assaults that are occurring and it’s super unfortunate.”
Lieutenant Jeremy Cox with the sheriff’s office says the license-plate readers can scan multiple tags as the unit is driving, making for a better scan of vehicles they otherwise wouldn’t be able to scan while at the wheel.
Kosemund says it’s a small addition of technology that can make a world of a difference when obtained in six months to a year.
“When that license plate hits, we can actually go and stop that vehicle and investigate,” said Kosemund. “Maybe save a child.”
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