New Mobile Command Center To Be Set Up In Southern Half Of Harford County

HARFORD COUNTY, MD — Officials have rolled out the new Harford County Mobile Command Center to be used by the sheriff's office and department of emergency services.

The mobile command center, or MCC, is a 2022 Freightliner M2 Chassis with a frontline aluminum custom modular body. It will replace the aging 22-year-old Winnebago Adventurer that was retrofitted into a command vehicle. The previous vehicle will be used as a reserve vehicle for times when more than one MCC may be needed or required for simultaneous deployments. Although a joint vehicle, both HCSO and DES fully recognize that this is a resource that is needed and used by law enforcement approximately 95% of the time.

During 2023, the current MCC was deployed on more than 50 operations to assist with a variety of incidents including barricades, missing person searches, multi-alarm fire investigations, protracted incidents, large event command, critical incidents, demonstrations and training exercises, the sheriff's office said.

An estimated 73% of the police related emergency calls for service come from the southern portion of the County. In the last two years, the current command vehicle was deployed in the southern portion of the county 88.5% of the time. Officials recently had installed a $30,000 electrical support system at the HCSO Southern Precinct to make sure the new MCC is ready to go.

Purchased for $1,598,645, from a local Maryland distributor, the MCC allows the sheriff’s office to function on critical incidents utilizing the National Incident Command System. The all-aluminum body features a Night Scan light tower, 25KW generator, fully operational conference room and six workstations that allow for multiple functions to be performed simultaneously.