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Corky Martin started his 26-year career in law enforcement in 1991 as a jailer at the old detention center adjacent to the Garland County Sheriff’s Department.
He’s still working there 30 years later, but in a much different role. He’s director of the Garland County 911 Communications Center, which went live in the booking area of the old jail in 2018 and ushered in a new era of public safety communications in the county.
In 2017, the county began building the new facility and migrating its communications system from an analog platform to the Arkansas Wireless Information Network’s 700-800 MHz frequency digital microwave-based interoperable system. At the same time, responsibility for answering 911 calls and dispatching emergency personnel shifted from the sheriff’s department to the county’s Office of Emergency Management…
