Published July 24. 2026 10:37AM<\/p>\n
The Salisbury Township Police Department hosted its first annual Youth Law Enforcement Academy. The academy is designed for Salisbury Township School District students in fifth and sixth grades and features a wide range of law enforcement related curriculum. The program was developed and led by Officer Richard Nothstein of the Salisbury Township Police Department. The first week of instruction ran July 6 through July 10, and the second week began July 13 and concluded July 17.<\/p>\n
Highlighted curriculum included:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Physical fitness<\/p>\n
\u2022 Presentation on the history of the Salisbury Township Police Department<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tour of police headquarters and patrol vehicles<\/p>\n
\u2022 Crime scene investigations<\/p>\n
\u2022 Taser demonstration<\/p>\n
\u2022 Basic patrol tactics<\/p>\n
\u2022 St. Luke\u2019s ambulance demonstration<\/p>\n
\u2022 Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2019s Medevac landing and demonstration<\/p>\n
\u2022 Police K-9 demonstration<\/p>\n
\u2022 Eastern and Western Fire Department demonstrations<\/p>\n
\u2022 Salisbury Township Police enduro unit demonstration<\/p>\n
\u2022 Lehigh County Drone Team demonstration<\/p>\n
\u2022 Lehigh County Emergency Response Team demonstration featuring an armored tactical truck.<\/p>\n
Second-week cadets tour the Lehigh Valley Hospital MedEvac helicopter. Flight crew members explain the operation of the helicopter, the different types of calls they respond to and the advanced medical equipment that they carry on board. Cadets also learned the different levels of education and training that is required to become a member of the flight crew.Press photo by Timothy Singles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 24. 2026 10:37AM The Salisbury Township Police Department hosted its first annual Youth Law Enforcement Academy.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-251166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251166","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=251166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}