EAST WINDSOR Township law enforcement officials will soon have some more high-tech surveillance equipment in their arsenal.
The township has received a $13,500 grant from the federal Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Preparedness Directorate to purchase new digital compact thermal imaging cameras.
Thermal cameras form an image by using infrared radiation and can render an image of a person in total darkness or in an area completely obscured by smoke or some other airborne substance by measuring variations in temperature.
According to a press release from Mayor Janice Mironov, they are “very helpful in the search for missing or lost individuals.”
”The township is grateful for receipt of this state-of-the-art thermal-imaging camera which will provide another useful technological tool to assist our policing efforts and at no cost to East Windsor taxpayers,” she said.
The township’s fire and police departments were the beneficiaries of another group of thermal cameras from a DHS and FEMA grant earlier this year.

