{"id":159061,"date":"2022-10-14T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T03:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=159061"},"modified":"2022-10-14T22:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T03:59:40","slug":"highway-patrol-announces-policy-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/10\/14\/highway-patrol-announces-policy-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway patrol announces policy change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted in<\/em>formation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio State Highway Patrol Colonel Charles Jones has announced an important<br>change to the OSHP\u2019s uniform policy. Effective immediately, current troopers and potential applicants are permitted to wear the long sleeve uniform shirt to cover tattoos. Future employees with tattoos that would be visible when wearing the short-sleeve uniform shirt are required to wear long sleeves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the policy revision, troopers with visible tattoos will wear the issued long sleeve uniform shirt year-round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are, and always have been, a professional organization built upon serving the people of Ohio,\u201d Colonel Jones said. \u201cWith this change we will continue to do just that, while also recognizing the diversity of those who wish to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone interested in becoming a member of the Patrol should go online <a href=\"https:\/\/statepatrol.ohio.gov\/recruitment-and-training\/recruitment\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio State Highway Patrol Colonel Charles Jones has announced an importantchange to the OSHP\u2019s uniform policy. Effective immediately, current troopers and potential applicants are permitted to wear the long sleeve uniform shirt to cover tattoos. Future employees with tattoos that would be visible when wearing the short-sleeve uniform shirt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 14:43:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159096,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159061\/revisions\/159096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}