{"id":161342,"date":"2026-04-09T11:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:45:31","slug":"bethlehem-police-roll-out-new-programs-to-fight-crime-and-they-want-your-help-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161342\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem police roll out new programs to fight crime, and they want your help | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8212; The Bethlehem Police Department is launching a new public safety program to help fight crime.<\/p>\n<p>The Bethlehem PD Community Camera Program will link first responders and investigators with important surveillance video, the department said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>There are three ways that businesses and residents can participate: register your camera, integrate your cameras or purchase cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Each level of involvement can help first responders during an emergency and in the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>Details on registering and FAQs can be <a href=\"https:\/\/refer.flocksafety.com\/bethlehem-pd-community-camera-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police also announced new technology to improve public safety.<\/p>\n<p>New automated license plate readers will be installed in key locations across the city, the department announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras come from Flock Safety, which is the company the City of Allentown used to install a gunshot audio detection system and license plate readers.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem&#8217;s license plate readers will provide real-time alerts to track and recover stolen property.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras also gather vehicle information quickly, which is important during emergencies and in solving cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8212; The Bethlehem Police Department is launching a new public safety program to help fight crime.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391,433,805,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-161342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-bethlehem-area","13":"tag-lehigh-county","14":"tag-lehighvalley","15":"tag-northampton-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}