{"id":68786,"date":"2019-05-24T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=68786"},"modified":"2024-01-04T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:10:23","slug":"ddn-wright-state-grad-military-veteran-named-top-officer-in-miami-twp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/05\/24\/ddn-wright-state-grad-military-veteran-named-top-officer-in-miami-twp\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News: Wright State grad, military veteran named top officer in Miami Twp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68794\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68794\" class=\"size-large wp-image-68794\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-24-at-8.45.20-AM-508x335.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"303\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-68794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miami Township Police Chief Charles Stiegelmeyer (left) with Wright State alum and Miami Township Police Sergeant and Officer of the Year Jay Phares (&#8217;99).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Police Sgt. Jay Phares has been named the 2018 Miami Township Officer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Phares, a 29-year veteran of the department, was selected by his peers for the award announced earlier this month, according to the township.<\/p>\n<p>Phares graduated from Wright State in 1999 with a B.A. in Sociology.<\/p>\n<p>Phares, who started his career with township in 1990 as an auxiliary patrolman, is a graduate of Wright State University and a the U.S. Army veteran of the Persian Gulf War.<\/p>\n<p>He became a patrol officer for the township in 1993. Among the positions has had had include bike patrol officer, detective, senior Intoxilyzer operator and resource officer. Phares received a promotions to staff sergeant and currently serves as patrol sergeant, according to the township.<\/p>\n<p>He was previously named Law Enforcement Officer of the Year by the Montgomery County Association of Chiefs of Police in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>View the original post at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/local\/wright-state-grad-military-veteran-named-top-officer-miami-twp\/lmw03n2H3lgavehYyDSw1J\/\">daytondailynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Police Sgt. Jay Phares has been named the 2018 Miami Township Officer of the Year. Phares, a 29-year veteran of the department, was selected by his peers for the award announced earlier this month, according to the township. Phares &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/05\/24\/ddn-wright-state-grad-military-veteran-named-top-officer-in-miami-twp\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145621,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68786\/revisions\/145621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}