Police Encourage Residents' Use of LeadsOnline App

ERPD Chief J.R. Reed

During The January 28 City Council meeting, Interim City Manager Mike Williams said he and Police Chief J.R. Reed had a meeting in which it was agreed the city would purchase the LeadsOnline software to track pawn shop transactions.

According to Chief Williams the software will be purchased for less than $2,500. The police should be using LeadsOnline in the very near future, officials said.

On Thursday, Chief Reed suggested that citizens can visit the LeadsOnline Website now to help them keep track of vital information concerning their belongings.

“While (ERPD) is going through the set up and training stages (for LeadsOnline), the citizens can utilize this tool in conjunction with their home inventory process,” Chief Reed wrote in an e-mail. “I have included the link below.

Click here for the link to the program.

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.