{"id":4422,"date":"2014-10-23T11:56:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/mayor-swears-in-five-kent-police-officers\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T23:55:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T06:55:38","slug":"mayor-swears-in-five-kent-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/mayor-swears-in-five-kent-police-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor swears in five Kent Police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Five new officers recently joined the Kent Police force.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The five were sworn in by Mayor Suzette Cooke at the Oct. 21 City Council meeting after Police Chief Ken Thomas gave a brief description about each officer. They are:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 <strong>Andrew Grove<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>He served three years recently with the Philippine National Police as he helped lead an anti-human trafficking group. He previously served nine years with the Kent Police.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 <strong>Eric Wesson<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>He served 10 years in Tucson, Arizona before joining Kent for two years. He left Kent in 2011 for California to handle some family matters and has returned to Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 <strong>Eli Morris<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>He recently served one year with the University of Washington Police.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 <strong>Kevin Strong<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>He served five years with the Memphis, Tenn., police and is a U.S. Army veteran.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 <strong>Jamey Hattaway<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>He worked two years as an officer in Alabama after 12 years in Florida.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five new officers recently joined the Kent Police force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":4423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}