{"id":74590,"date":"2017-03-29T08:08:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=74590"},"modified":"2017-03-29T08:08:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:08:55","slug":"sgt-curry-named-officer-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2017\/03\/sgt-curry-named-officer-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. Curry named Officer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sergeant Tameka Curry was honored this past week\u00a0by the Exchange Club of Cleveland as part of their annual Emergency Responders Luncheon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Curry, who has been with Delta State for three years, was recognized as Officer of the Year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;It feels like a great level of achievement to be recognized,&#8221; said Curry. &#8220;Over the course of my 12-year career in law enforcement, I&#8217;ve been recognized for many things, but I&#8217;ve never been named Officer of the Year. I&#8217;m thankful I was able to procure that here at Delta State.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Delta State Police Chief Jeffrey Johns was thrilled with Curry&#8217;s recognition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;She was promoted to sergeant on February 1 based on her experience, contributions and a professional attitude,&#8221; said Johns. &#8220;Her\u00a0commitment to service made her a perfect fit for Officer of the Year.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One responder was selected from each of the following organizations: Bolivar Sheriff\u2019s Department, Cleveland Police and Fire, Delta State University Police Department, Pafford EMS and Bolivar County EOC Volunteers.<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergeant Tameka Curry was honored this past week\u00a0by the Exchange Club of Cleveland as part of their annual Emergency Responders Luncheon. Curry, who has been with Delta State for three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":74674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,296],"tags":[1726,1727],"class_list":["post-74590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community-3","category-facultystaff","tag-campus-police","tag-cleveland-exchange-club"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74590"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74690,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74590\/revisions\/74690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}