By John L. Micek
masslive.com
BOSTON — Fifty-two police departments throughout Massachusetts will share in additional than $3.6 million in state grant cash to pay for brand new physique cameras, Gov. Maura Healey’s workplace mentioned Tuesday.
The infusion will “[strengthen] police-community relations,” the Democratic governor mentioned in an announcement of the cash awarded via the state’s Legislation Enforcement Physique-Worn Digital camera Program, which is now in its third yr.
“These grants present native police businesses with assets to implement expertise that whereas bettering investigations and advancing the basic ideas of transparency and accountability,” Healey mentioned.
The brand new spherical of funding will underwrite each the acquisition of physique cameras and information storage of the footage generated by these cameras.
At a legislative listening to earlier this yr, county prosecutors informed lawmakers that the proliferation of cameras was overloading the statewide community that handles the footage, WBUR reported.
State officers mentioned final yr that 10% of the Bay State’s municipal police division have a body-worn digital camera program. And three-quarters of departments in massive cities and smaller cities have been concerned with beginning such a program, WBUR reported, citing survey information compiled by the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Affiliation.
The cameras “present legislation enforcement businesses with an essential software to enhance coaching and advance finest practices,” state Secretary of Public Security and Safety Terrence Reidy mentioned within the administration’s assertion.
“As a rising variety of departments launch or develop body-worn digital camera packages, this funding has change into an important useful resource for police departments throughout the state,” Reidy mentioned.
These are the police departments that obtained grants:
- Acton Police Division: $135,751
- Adams Police Division: $110,464
- Arlington Police Division: $60,017
- Auburn Police Division: $93,945
- Barnstable Police Division: $151,907
- Belchertown Police Division: $58,705
- Berlin Police Division: $10,000
- Bernardston Police Division: $15,960
- Bourne Police Division: $61,482
- Bridgewater Police Division: $250,000
- Brookline Police Division: $250,000
- Clinton Police Division: $160,248
- Fall River Police Division: $7,400
- Framingham Police Division: $211,300
- Goshen Police Division: $26,050
- Grafton Police Division: $6,651
- Granville Police Division: $39,230
- Hinsdale Police Division: $52,636
- Holbrook Police Division: $92,587
- Holliston Police Division: $75,200
- Kingston Police Division: $50,000
- Lanesborough Police Division: $39,700
- Lawrence Police Division: $249,928
- Leicester Police Division: $13,099
- Littleton Police Division: $150,047
- Marion Police Division: $42,530
- Methuen Police Division: $26,029
- Nahant Police Division: $3,980
- New Bedford Police Division: $250,000
- North Adams Police Division: $21,015
- North Studying Police Division: $134,688
- Northfield Police Division: $7,670
- Orange Police Division: $14,512
- Rockland Police Division: $167,124
- Salem Police Division: $13,096
- Sherborn Police Division: $73,650
- Shrewsbury Police Division: $20,895
- Southborough Police Division: $16,064.00
- Sudbury Police Division: $27,787
- Sutton Police Division: $69,624
- Warwick Police Division: $8,940
- West Bridgewater Police Division: $74,813
- Whatley Police Division: $4,197
- Winchendon Police Division: $12,490
- Yarmouth Police Division: $7,220
“Physique-worn cameras are a transformative software that promotes police transparency and accountability, enhances neighborhood belief, and positively impacts the standard of investigations,” Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll mentioned. “These grants underscore our Administration’s dedication to creating safer communities and supporting municipalities with the assets wanted to ship exemplary police companies.”
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