{"id":184007,"date":"2024-09-23T21:11:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T02:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=184007"},"modified":"2024-09-23T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T02:11:38","slug":"new-vwpd-officers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/09\/23\/new-vwpd-officers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New VWPD officers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/VWPD-new-officers-9-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-184008\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Debra Ebert took the oath to be a reserve police officer with the Van Wert Police Department&nbsp;She is is a full time dispatcher for the department and she already has a law enforcement certificate from prior experience.&nbsp;She has been added to help out with sporting event security and parades. Connor Smitley was a Van Wert High School CEO student and wanted a career in law enforcement.&nbsp;He graduated from the Vantage Police Academy and joined the Van Wert Police Department as a full-time police officer on Monday. Pictured above: Safety-Service Director Jay Fleming, Mayor Ken Markward, Ebert, Smitley and Police Chief Doug Weigle. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debra Ebert took the oath to be a reserve police officer with the Van Wert Police Department&nbsp;She is is a full time dispatcher for the department and she already has a law enforcement certificate from prior experience.&nbsp;She has been added to help out with sporting event security and parades. Connor Smitley was a Van Wert [&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-184007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 22:57:17","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\/184007","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=184007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184032,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184007\/revisions\/184032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}