Deputy sheriff using watchman’s clock at Nolin River Lake Watchman’s Clocks Used In Cooperative Law Enforcement Agreements

  • Robert Barnett
  • Park Manager
Publication date
January 1988

Abstract

M any projects in the Louisville Dis-trict have cooperative agreements with local sheriff departments for patrol of recreation areas during high-use peri-ods. In recent years, several of these projects have used watchman’s clocks to document the activity and move-ments of deputies patrolling within the scope of these agreements. The clocks produce a record showing the location and exact time a deputy makes his patrol. Each location has a key with a differ-ent number. The keys are chained inside our traffic counter boxes to pro-tect them from vandalism or removal. Each deputy has a clock. When he enters the recreation area, the deputy inserts the key in the clock and turns it. This prints the time and location number on the tape. Each Monday...

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