ROCHESTER — The Rochester Select Board voted to allot Plymouth County American Rescue Plan Act funds to cell improvements in the police station and four new automated external defibrillator systems on Monday, Oct. 7.

“I think we all know there is a need for it,” said Select Board member Adam Murphy of the improvements to police station cells.

ASAP Engineering has been contracted to make the upgrades, which will be made using $3,500 in ARPA funds.

Of the four AED systems to be purchased, one will go to the Joseph H. Plumb Memorial Library, another will be placed in a van used by the Rochester Council on Aging, and two will be placed in Rochester Police Department vehicles.

Town Administrator Cameron Durant said all Council on Aging vehicle drivers are required to be certified in AED use.

Donations from the Southeastern Massachusetts Resource Recovery Facility, the waste management facility known as SEMASS, will also be used to help cover some of the costs of the AEDs.

To cover the $10,184.72 cost of all four, a combination of ARPA funding and SEMASS donations will be used.