{"id":22443,"date":"2018-06-26T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=22443"},"modified":"2018-06-20T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:45:12","slug":"vantage-adult-police-academy-graduates-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/vantage-adult-police-academy-graduates-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Vantage Adult Police Academy Graduates Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22444\" style=\"width: 551px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22444\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Vantage-Police-Academy-2018.jpg?resize=551%2C366&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"366\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front Row, L-R Kameran Clemons, Oakwood; Trevor Williamson, Continental; Nathan Owens, Convoy. Back Row, L-R: Eijah Wortman, Convoy; Skyler Maassel, Paulding; Samuel Nickols, Paulding; Chase Kuhn, Van Wert. Commander-Bruce Showalter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ohio Technical Center of Vantage Career Center recently celebrated the graduation of seven students from the Police Academy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>These students participated in 10 months of a rigorous course of study that saw them attending class four nights a week and many Saturdays to complete 700 hours of training in a wide variety of Peace Officer skills.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>These include Human Relations, Firearms, Driving, Investigation, Physical Conditioning, Traffic and Homeland Security among others.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bruce Showalter, Commander of the Vantage Police Academy, this was an outstanding class, the first ever to have 100% passage rate on the physical conditioning portion of the curriculum on the first attempt.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Furthermore, despite the intensity of the training and the demanding schedule, three of the seven students had perfect attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Kameran Clemans of Oakwood took the top academic and Physical Conditioning awards for the class, while Elijah Wortman, of Convoy, and Samuel Nickols of Paulding joined Kameran in earning a perfect attendance award.<\/p>\n<p>Commander Showalter also announced his retirement as Commander of the Academy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He has served in this post for the past 15 years.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He was awarded a plaque thanking him for his service by Kit Tyler, Director of the OTC and Pete Prichard, former Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ohio Technical Center of Vantage Career Center recently celebrated the graduation of seven students from the Police Academy.\u00a0 These<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[10642,10643,10645,973,10644,10646,111],"class_list":["post-22443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-school","tag-adult-police-academy","tag-commander-showalter","tag-elijah-wortman","tag-graduation","tag-kameran-clemans","tag-samuel-nickols","tag-vantage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Vantage-Police-Academy-2018.jpg?fit=1016%2C668&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-5PZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 18:52:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}