The Walker County Sheriff’s Office is opening a satellite office in September inside Ridgeland Business Complex at the intersection of Happy Valley and Wilson roads.
Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said crimes continue to occur along Wilson Road, near the intersection picked for the new office.
“Per square mile there’s more people on the northern end [of the county],” said Wilson. “The county has 68,000 people and 65 percent live from Chickamauga north to the state line. That results in more crime because there’s more people.”
The department is in the middle of renovating the 800 square feet of office space, which property owner Chris Carlton, of Carlton Properties, is allowing the department to use free of charge, Wilson said.
“It’s mostly cosmetic and minor carpentry work and putting a security system in,” said Wilson. “We hope to have it open in the next three weeks. Initially, it will not be a staffed office. We can use it as a command post for serious incidents in the north end of the county.”