Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County receives older police car from Scranton for student education

SCRANTON — The Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County received an older police car from the city of Scranton for education in the high school’s Protective Services Program and other courses.

City officials delivered the 2015 Ford Taurus Interceptor to the school in North Scranton on Friday.

“I’m very excited on behalf of the city of Scranton and the Scranton Police Department to give to you guys an SPD vehicle,” Scranton Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti told a small crowd of students and school personnel. “How cool is this? It’s like Christmas coming early. I see the excitement in your faces. I’ve heard how excited you are” to receive the vehicle.

Scranton donated a 2015 Ford Taurus Interceptor police car to the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County for education in the high school's Protective Services Program. The city delivered the vehicle to the school in Scranton on Friday, Nov. 15, 2014. Scranton Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti, second from left, speaks during the event, flanked by CTC Protective Services Instructor Jonathan Coyne, at far left, and CTC Director Karla Carlucci, third from left, and Scranton Police Chief Thomas Carroll, at far right. JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO — Scranton donated a 2015 Ford Taurus Interceptor police car to the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County for education in the high school’s Protective Services Program. The city delivered the vehicle to the school in Scranton on Friday, Nov. 15, 2014. Scranton Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti, second from left, speaks during the event, flanked by CTC Protective Services Instructor Jonathan Coyne, at far left, and CTC Director Karla Carlucci, third from left, and Scranton Police Chief Thomas Carroll, at far right. JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO

CTC Director Karla Carlucci said the vehicle also will be useful for students in other courses, including collision repair, automotive technology regarding learning about computers and how they’re connected, and print production involving creating, installing and removing decals.

“This is definitely going to help them,” Carlucci said.

The school has been trying to rebuild its Protective Services Program, which involves firefighting, law enforcement, crime scene investigating and emergency medical services, program instructor Jonathan Coyne said. The vehicle will help Protective Services Program students learn how to perform a traffic stop because the car is an actual, working police vehicle, with all of the lights, sirens and equipment.

“This is going to be a great piece for us,” Coyne said.

Students Madilyn Amorine, a 16-year-old junior who wants to become a tactical medic in the Navy, and senior Gavin Hegedus, 17, who is considering taking up firefighting, also said the car will benefit education at the school.

“It will help with all different types of our practicals,” Amorine said.

Hegedus added, “It’s going to be very valuable to our program.”

Scranton City Council recently approved legislation from the Cognetti administration authorizing the donation of the city asset to the school, noted Scranton Councilman Mark McAndrew, who is a culinary instructor at CTC.

Scranton Police Chief Thomas Carroll said the donation of the vehicle, which is still in good shape, stems from “a change of philosophy” in City Hall regarding improving the police fleet and that includes a preventive maintenance program and analysis of the city investment in vehicles.

“So now instead of running our cars into the ground and selling them for scrap, we’re now able to repurpose them, which is why we’re here today,” Carroll said. “We’re giving back. We’re finally in a position to give back.”

Scranton donated a 2015 Ford Taurus Interceptor police car to the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County for education in the high school’s Protective Services Program. The city delivered the vehicle to the school in Scranton on Friday, Nov. 15, 2014. Scranton Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti, second from left, speaks during the event, flanked by CTC Protective Services Instructor Jonathan Coyne, at far left, and CTC Director Karla Carlucci, third from left, and Scranton Police Chief Thomas Carroll, at far right. JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO

Scranton donated a 2015 Ford Taurus Interceptor police car to the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County for education in the high school’s Protective Services Program. The city delivered the vehicle to the school in Scranton on Friday, Nov. 15, 2014. Madilyn Amorine, a student in the Protective Services Program, was one of several students who attended the event. JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO

Scranton donated a 2015 Ford Taurus Interceptor police car to the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County for education in the high school’s Protective Services Program. The city delivered the vehicle to the school in Scranton on Friday, Nov. 15, 2014. Gavin Hegedus, a student in the Protective Services Program, was one of several students who attended the event. JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO

Scranton donated a 2015 Ford Taurus Interceptor police car to the Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County for education in the high school’s Protective Services Program. The city delivered the vehicle to the school in Scranton on Friday, Nov. 15, 2014. Scranton Police Chief Thomas Carroll, at right, speaks. The others, from left, are CTC Protective Services Instructor Jonathan Coyne, Scranton Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti and CTC Director Karla Carlucci. JIM LOCKWOOD / STAFF PHOTO

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