The Pennsylvania State Police announced Monday that all patrol troopers assigned to Troop K which covers Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Delaware counties, are now outfitted with body-worn cameras and updated mobile video recorders in their patrol vehicles.State police completed an expedited rollout ahead of schedule specifically for Troop K bringing the total PSP stations outfitted with body-worn cameras to cover 19 counties across the Commonwealth.
The department entered into a five-year contract, with an option for renewals, with Arizona-based Axon to provide the cameras, as well as the necessary software and infrastructure.The news comes more than a month after the PSP launched an internal investigation after the controversial arrest of the head of the city’s office of LGBT Affairs, Celena Morrison-McLean and her husband, Kalen McLean,.