SRSO Sheriff Goes High Tech With GPR

The Santa Rosa Sheriff's Office has recently completed training on the new ground penetrating radar system (GPR) provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Sheriff Wendell Hall sent his crime scene director Charlie Peters and several of his technicians through the training in order to learn how to use the highly sensitive equipment. The training was also made available to other law enforcement agencies in the Northwest Florida area. The GPR will be used in the future to look for evidence located underneath the ground. The sensors can be set at a particular depth and will look for disturbances in the earth beneath the surface and can detect such things as pipes, objects, weapons, or even human remains. The instructor was Ms. Dena Delday with the Canadian based company, Sensors & Software Inc.