Police in Butler Township and Slippery Rock will be getting new camera systems to help improve public safety as well as promote the safety of their officers.

Butler Township received $155,464, and Slippery Rock received $97,242 from the Local Law Enforcement Support Program and Gun Violence Investigation & Prosecution Program, both administered by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.

Funding can be spent on improving multi-agency gun violence task forces, personnel costs, technology and software to improve investigation or increase clearance rates, firearm tracing programs and any efforts that aid in the investigation of a crime involving firearms, according to a Thursday, Dec. 15, news release from Gov. Tom Wolf’s office.

Slippery Rock Mayor Jondavid Longo said the borough got exactly what it applied for, which will pay for new body cameras for eight officers, dash cameras for their three vehicles and license plate recognition cameras for the police department. These will all be new systems to the borough police.

“These cameras serve to protect citizens, but also serve to protect officers,” Longo said. “Having systems like these is going to make sure that everybody is accountable.”

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