{"id":240061,"date":"2026-07-10T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240061\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:38:16","slug":"steps-being-taken-to-upgrade-scranton-pd-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240061\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps being taken to upgrade Scranton PD technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Another step is being taken for Scranton&#8217;s Police Department to upgrade technology: The city is seeking half a million dollars to upgrade its technology, including a recently added drone program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The technology will also be used in a potential real-time crime center at the old Fidelity Bank location downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Tuesday night, city council members are expected to have a second reading on the grant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Scranton recovery center receives $112K grant;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/articles\/scranton-recovery-center-receives-112k-172016658.html\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Scranton recovery center receives $112K grant\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Scranton&#8217;s police chief says they would not be able to invest in these technologies without the council&#8217;s support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;What we&#8217;re trying to do with this grant is to make sure we have the ability to acquire technology that will give us that edge that will get us closer to that always being there when they need us,&#8221; Scranton Police Department Chief Thomas Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There needs to be a third reading by council before a final decision is made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Another step is being taken for Scranton&#8217;s Police Department to upgrade technology: The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[16776,20631,201,178,180,179,20916,503],"class_list":["post-240061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-city-council-members","tag-fidelity-bank","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-scranton-police-department","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240061","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=240061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}