PAMPA, TEXAS -- The Pampa Police Department wants to make their city parks safer. So they have applied for a grant to put surveillance cameras in five of their parks.
The goal is to cut down on the vandalism they have seen around city parks, and make families with small children feel safer.
Police hope to put ten cameras up around town two per park with 24-hour surveillance that will be monitored by law enforcement at their station.
Chief Kelly Rushing says he's confident this will cut down on crime. "If someone decides they want to spray paint a bunch of stuff and all of a sudden we come to their house and knock on their door and bring them in here and charge them, and they say here's the video were watching you, and hopefully the word will get out we'll catch ya."
Pampa police hope to hear something about their grant in the next couple of months.
