Henry County police task force agreement gets board OK

The Henry County Board of Commissioners voted at its July 9 regular meeting to approve a $15,000 budget amendment requested by the Henry County Police Department related to its participation in the U.S. Secret Service’s Electronic Crimes Task Force.

It was described as a “strategic alliance of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to confront and suppress technology-based crimes.” Certain HCPD officers assigned to the task force as trained and equipped at the National Computer Forensic Institute and will be made available for a three-year period to assist the Secret Service in the event of a large-scale cyberattack within Georgia, according to officials. The U.S. Treasury Department, of which the Secret Service is a part, has a policy for reimbursements of certain overtime costs and expenses for agencies involved in joint operations.