{"id":169971,"date":"2026-04-19T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169971\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:05:16","slug":"allentown-police-use-helicopter-support-to-combat-crime-in-city-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169971\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown police use helicopter support to combat crime in city | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police in Allentown partnered with Pennsylvania State Police&#8217;s helicopter unit Saturday night in an effort to enhance public safety in the city.<\/p>\n<p>According to a post on the Allentown police department&#8217;s Facebook page, the partnership &#8220;will continue through the summer to enhance relationships and make our community safer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The patrol effort also includes a state trooper contingent on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The post also expressed gratitude to the PA State Police and Allentown officers &#8220;working together to hold people accountable who choose to engage in criminal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police in Allentown partnered with Pennsylvania State Police&#8217;s helicopter unit Saturday night in an effort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,433,805],"class_list":{"0":"post-169971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-allentown-area","13":"tag-lehigh-county","14":"tag-lehighvalley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169971","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=169971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}