{"id":6646,"date":"2011-06-02T14:17:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T21:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2011-06-02T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T00:22:48","slug":"news-brief-lewis-county-sheriffs-office-gets-accredited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6646","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office gets accredited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; The Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced yesterday it has become an accredited law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p>The more than year-long process is one that takes considerable effort and determination to complete, and is something the community should be very proud of, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The formal notice came last week from the Washington Association of Sheriff&#8217;s and Police Chiefs, according to a news release from the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The men and women employed by this office continually strive to make a positive difference in our community,&#8221; Sheriff Steve Mansfield wrote. &#8220;The accreditation is just another way to show members of this community how truly professional and progressive our office is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among various objectives, accreditation is meant to demonstrate an agency meets commonly accepted standards for efficient and effective operation, according to WASPC.<\/p>\n<p>Only about 50 agencies statewide are accredited, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The Chehalis Police Department was the first agency in the county to receive accreditation in 1999 and the Centralia Police Department followed in late 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; The Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced yesterday it has become an accredited law enforcement agency. The more than year-long process is one that takes considerable effort and determination to complete, and is something the community should be very proud of, according to the sheriff&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}