{"id":28141,"date":"2017-05-03T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-to-host-upcoming-community-awareness-meeting\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T22:30:00","slug":"kent-police-to-host-upcoming-community-awareness-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-to-host-upcoming-community-awareness-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police to host upcoming community awareness meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Police Department invites the public to a community meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 10, at the Kent Police\/Fire Training Center, 24523 116th Ave. SE.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting&rsquo;s focus is to bring police leadership and community members together to address crime concerns and introduce resources police can provide residents to make neighborhoods safer.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas, command staff and other police department personnel will be on hand to talk about crime trends, prevention and programs. Police also will give a special presentation with a firearms training simulator.<\/p>\n<p>A cornerstone of the Kent Police strategy for creating safe communities is Intelligence Led Policing. The practice uses real-time crime intelligence, sharing information with partners, pro-active problem solving and community partnerships to address the issues of crime while improving the quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>The Kent Police Department hosts four community meetings each year, rotating them through various neighborhoods of the city.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 253-856-5883 or go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentwa.gov\/residents\/public-safety\/police-department\" target=\"_blank\">kentwa.gov\/police<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Police Department invites the public to a community meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 10, at the Kent Police\/Fire Training Center, 24523 116th Ave. SE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28141"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}