{"id":26302,"date":"2012-07-07T06:18:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T11:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=26302"},"modified":"2012-07-07T06:18:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T11:18:44","slug":"vwpd-has-new-bicycle-patrol-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/07\/07\/vwpd-has-new-bicycle-patrol-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"VWPD has new bicycle patrol unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VWPD information<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26303\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/VWPD-Bike-Patrol-7-2012.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26303   \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/VWPD-Bike-Patrol-7-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Wert Police Officer Joe Bruns leads the Holiday at Home Parade this past Wednesday. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Van Wert Police Department is pleased to announce the addition of a new bike patrol unit.\u00a0 Officer Joe Bruns recently completed the bike patrol course and will be the department\u2019s first bike patrol officer.<\/p>\n<p>This unit will be used to supplement the department\u2019s patrol division for special details, criminal\/traffic enforcement, and residential and business security.<\/p>\n<p>Police bike patrol units combine the benefits of both foot and vehicle patrol by allowing officers to cover areas not always accessible by a cruiser, while being able to cover larger patrol areas compared to traditional foot patrol.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, bike patrol officers are more accessible to the general public, which can assist in public relations.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Bruns has already worked a few special details and has been working bike patrol based on the operational needs of the uniform division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VWPD information The Van Wert Police Department is pleased to announce the addition of a new bike patrol unit.\u00a0 Officer Joe Bruns recently completed the bike patrol course and will be the department\u2019s first bike patrol officer. This unit will be used to supplement the department\u2019s patrol division for special details, criminal\/traffic enforcement, and residential [&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-26302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 01:50:44","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\/26302","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=26302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}