{"id":173627,"date":"2023-12-14T04:43:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T09:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=173627"},"modified":"2023-12-15T04:59:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T09:59:56","slug":"vwpd-officers-employees-lauded-during-annual-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/12\/14\/vwpd-officers-employees-lauded-during-annual-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert PD officers, employees lauded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Police department held its annual Appreciation\/Christmas Dinner for its employees on Tuesday. Several certificates for awards were presented by Chief Doug Weigle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sgt. Scott Cowling, Sgt Brock Blackmore and Officer Elijah Wortman each received a 5-year service certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Dispatcher-Rick-Spoor-12-13-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173638\"\/><figcaption>Chief Doug Weigle (left) presented Dispatcher Rick Spoor (right) with four awards. <em>Bob Barnes photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The following awards were voted on by the department&#8217;s employees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Team Player of the Year was a tie and was awarded to Officer Elijah Wortman and C&amp;I Manager April Scott. <\/li><li>Officer Leadership award went to Sgt. Kurt Conn.<\/li><li>Dispatcher Rick Spoor earned four awards: Dispatcher Leadership, Dispatcher Character, Dispatcher Mentorship and Dispatcher of the Year certificates.<\/li><li>Officer of the Year was tie and awarded to Sgt. Kurt Conn and Officer Elijah Wortman.<\/li><li>Officer Mentorship certificate went to Officer Joe Motycka.<\/li><li>Officer Character Award certificate went to Sgt. Brock Blackmore.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank all of the employees of the Van Wert City Police department for all the extra work performed this year, while our department has been short-staffed,\u201d Chief Weigle said. \u201cI can assure the citizens of Van Wert our police department is full of professional and caring individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information The Van Wert Police department held its annual Appreciation\/Christmas Dinner for its employees on Tuesday. Several certificates for awards were presented by Chief Doug Weigle. Sgt. Scott Cowling, Sgt Brock Blackmore and Officer Elijah Wortman each received a 5-year service certificate. The following awards were voted on by the department&#8217;s employees: [&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-173627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-14 16:30:07","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\/173627","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=173627"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173693,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173627\/revisions\/173693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}