The Statesboro Police Officers Foundation, led by local business people and civilian professionals, has granted the Statesboro Police Department $8,000 for additional body armor, in the form of vests called ballistic plate carriers with hard armor plates, for all of its officers. This will be roughly half the total, a little more than $16,000, needed to buy 74 or 75 of the vest-and-plate sets for the department, which if fully staffed would have 74 sworn officers. The remainder will come from the department’s seized assets fund, so the purchase will have no impact on the city’s tax-supplied general fund, SPD Deputy Chief Robert W. Bryan told City Council.