GREENVILLE, Miss.–To help combat crime in Greenville, the plan is to install Sky Cop cams in “hot spots”, where crime happens most often. But, the Greater Greenville Economic Foundation has run into a problem.
The organization, which has helped procure the cameras with a $150,000 budget to do so, was planning to install them on the metal poles upon which the city puts Christmas decorations.
“Unfortunately Entergy has a policy that we can no longer tie into those poles,” said Daniel Boggs, executive director of that organization, talking to the city council Tuesday. “They are now requiring a completely dedicated 110 volt outlet on the wooden poles. They will not let us touch those metal poles.”
Boggs asked the council for $7,200 to help run the electricity for nine of the city’s 11 cameras.
The other two are installed on poles owned by the city, with no additional work needed.
