The Endicott police department is deploying several new tools and technology to help investigate crimes and combat illegal activities in the village.

The village was awarded $770,000 from Governor Hochul earlier this year, which has gone into five new technologies for the police department.

A shot spotter system that can identify and pinpoint gunshots and their locations, new in-car cameras and license plate readers for patrol cars, twenty new cameras throughout downtown Endicott, and high-tech trace evidence scanners and crime scene scanners.

Village of Endicott Police Chief Patrick Garey says these new tools will help solve crimes efficiently and, hopefully, contribute to crime prevention efforts.

Garey says..."I think it's going to give us the biggest edge toward solving some of these incidents. And quite frankly, once we can use it to solve a few, maybe it lessens the likelihood of it occurring, but probably the one that is from a community and is going to have the biggest impact I think is the downtown cameras. "