Harp Security completes first year

In May of 2010, Harp Security Consultants, Inc. completed its first year of service protecting the County courthouse.
This past year 81,462 persons were screened on average of 326.5 per day for the 249 ½ days the court was open.
Items confiscated included 2,620 knives, 96 pairs of scissors, 155 cans of pepper/mace spray, 352 multi tools and 166 other items that could have been used as a weapon.
Harp stopped ten legally carried handguns from coming into the building. An estimated 40 others left their guns in their cars in anticipation of entering the courthouse.
Harp also collected or found in the courthouse one sword cane, bottles of liquor, brass knuckles, drugs left for an inmate of the detention center, a home made shive and a baby copperhead snake in a jar.