BEACHWOOD, Ohio — A community in Northeast Ohio is taking safety to an all-new level. A new way to improve response times and keep emergency crews and the community safe has recently been introduced in Beachwood.
Before this installment, Chief Katherine McLaughlin says their officers didn’t have issues responding to emergencies. “We have 14,000, give or take, residents here in Beachwood, but with all the organizations and the mall and different businesses that we have here throughout the city, we can have about 100,000 people within the city on a given day,” said McLaughlin.
“It does have the technology to be able to turn that off and cycle back to the regular cycle so that way if an officer is sitting at an intersection, it’s not that it’s just going to stay green for that officer,” said McLaughlin.