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You are here: Home / FEATURED POSTS / HCSO Initiates Temporary Service Changes in Reaction to Coronavirus

HCSO Initiates Temporary Service Changes in Reaction to Coronavirus

March 16, 2020 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article Leave a Comment

In an attempt to limit exposure of our personnel and the citizens we serve to the possibility of the coronavirus, beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, March 17th, the HCSO will take non-priority reports over the phone until at least April 1st.  We will re-evaluate at that time if we need to continue to answer non-priority calls in this manner.

Residents who need to complete a police report may contact 423-622-0022. Citizens who still wish to speak directly to a deputy in person may do so upon request.

We will have deputies available 8:00 am – 8:00 pm each day to take phone calls from citizens pertaining to non-critical calls.

Rest assured the HCSO will still respond to all critical calls for service involving crimes in progress, instances of violence, and all traffic crashes.

As we move forward in the coming days, we will continue to re-evaluate how we respond to service requests as we as a community work through the current public health situation. As always, for emergencies, please contact 911.

Filed Under: FEATURED POSTS, News

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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