The Reading Police Department\u2019s desk sergeant and dispatch center will be temporarily relocated, city officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The two operations will be moved to the Berks County Courthouse beginning May 18 at 7 a.m. due to ongoing renovations at City Hall.<\/p>\n
Public entry will be available from the Sixth Street side of the courthouse.<\/p>\n
The temporary location is expected to remain in effect until June 12 at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
Officials said services may return sooner if work at City Hall is completed ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n
During this temporary transition, officials said:<\/p>\n
\u2022 The public service window phone and all City Hall door intercoms will continue to connect directly with police personnel at the courthouse.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In-person police services normally handled at City Hall will temporarily operate from the Berks County Courthouse.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Residents are encouraged to call for service whenever possible, as in-person services will be limited during the relocation period.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Self-service forms will be available at both the courthouse and City Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reading Police Department\u2019s desk sergeant and dispatch center will be temporarily relocated, city officials announced Thursday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,857,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-193297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-essential-reading","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193297","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=193297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}