{"id":29245,"date":"2025-11-09T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29245\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T13:07:09","slug":"nazareth-borough-council-green-lights-police-k-9-unit-for-autumn-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29245\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazareth Borough Council green-lights police K-9 unit for autumn 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/nazareth\/\" title=\"Navigate to Nazareth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nazareth<\/a>Updated: Nov. 09, 2025, 7:30 a.m.|Published: Nov. 09, 2025, 7:30 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Nazareth Borough Council green-lights police K-9 unit for autumn 2026\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CJYETVMMLBBOPM5FHDGUHZ6KHQ.JPG\"\/>An Easton Police Department K-9 team checks a vehicle in June 202, in the city&#8217;s West Ward. Nazareth police officer Jacob Hartzell led the collection of $33,000 in donations to bring a K-9 unit to the borough&#8217;s department by fall 2026, complete with a ballistic vest for the four-legged officer.Tim Wynkoop File Photo | lehighvalleylive.com contributor<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VAZ3AQBLSVCTVPINBOBMTJTSG4\">A new member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/northampton.crimewatchpa.com\/nazarethpd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/northampton.crimewatchpa.com\/nazarethpd\">Nazareth Police Department<\/a> will be patrolling the streets next year \u2014 on four legs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DF6KY4JI65GA7GHPIMXXIMHMHA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nazarethboroughpa.com\/boroughcouncil.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nazarethboroughpa.com\/boroughcouncil.html\">Nazareth Borough Council<\/a> last Monday, Nov. 3 approved the formation of a police K-9 unit. Borough police Sgt. Randall Pompei said the K-9 unit is scheduled to be on patrol in autumn 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NazarethUpdated: Nov. 09, 2025, 7:30 a.m.|Published: Nov. 09, 2025, 7:30 a.m.An Easton Police Department K-9 team checks a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-29245","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\/29245","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=29245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}