Law enforcement ready for Panama City Beach spring break

Author: Associated Press
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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Panama City Beach is gearing up for the annual onslaught of spring breakers.

The Bay County Sheriff’s Office and the Panama City Beach Police Department have extra money in their budgets to cover anticipated over-time costs of additional spring break patrols.

The sheriff’s office says it expends about 7,600 man-hours on a normal week at the beach. That number of man-hours triples during spring break.

Major Tommy Ford tells the Panama City News Herald (http://bit.ly/1JVCxJU ) that law enforcement resources are stretched every year during spring break.

Along with allotting overtime for officers during spring break, the agencies are enlisting officers from nearby areas and using a mobile booking facility to save time required to transport those arrested to the county’s central booking center.

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