PIERCE TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Phone lines at the Pierce Township Police Department went down Tuesday afternoon after storms moved through Clermont County, and the department is directing anyone who needs police service to call the county’s emergency communications center instead.
“Due to the storm and lines down,” the department said in a Facebook post, its phones were not working. The department told residents to call the Clermont County Communications Center at (513) 732-2231 for police services until the outage is resolved.
The outage came as storms crossed the region Tuesday. The National Weather Service’s Wilmington, Ohio office issued a flood advisory Tuesday evening for southeastern Clermont County and southwestern Brown County after 2 to 2.5 inches of rain fell in a short span, according to the weather service.
The Clermont County Communications Center, the number police provided as a backup, dispatches law enforcement, fire and emergency medical calls across the county and can route calls to local departments when their own lines are down.
Pierce Township Police is headquartered at 950 Locust Corner Road and serves a community of more than 16,000 residents across 23.5 square miles in the southwest corner of Clermont County. The department traces its roots to the 1950s, when it began with a single full-time constable, according to the township. It has since grown into a 24-hour, year-round agency organized around community-oriented policing, including records requests, victim support services, extra patrol requests and residential vacation checks.
The information contained in this story was obtained from the Pierce Township Police Department.