The Fayette

County Commission will vote today on a Homeland Security grant that will

outfit the Sheriff's Department's helicopter with the latest in camera

technology.

The county

is set to receive nearly $304,000 in a Georgia Emergency Management Association

grant to buy a night and day vision camera for the copter, along with

goggles for the crew.

"We're

getting 10 percent of the grant money for the whole state," said

Sheriff's Department Lt. Col. Bruce Jordan.

Jordan is looking

at purchasing the equipment, dubbed POP, from an Israeli company.

"We'll

be one of only three departments around the country that has POP,"

Jordan said.

The grant also

enables the department to purchase a spotlight and a downlink system that

allows firefighters or police on the ground to view what the helicopter

is seeing from the air.

The funds require

the county to purchase the equipment, but be reimbursed fully at a later

date.

The meeting

starts at 3:30 p.m. at the Fayette County Administrative Complex.