{"id":1180832,"date":"2022-11-18T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1180832"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T16:56:51","slug":"wayne-allen-sworn-in-as-precinct-2-constable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1180832","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Allen sworn in as Precinct 2 constable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/Wayne-Allen-Swearing-In-by-Judge-Skeen-111822-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1180833\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Retired Tyler Police Detective Wayne Allen was sworn in as Smith County Precinct 2 Constable Friday after recently being elected. Allen began working for the Tyler Police Department in 1991. He served in the patrol and traffic divisions before becoming a Financial Crimes Detective. In this role, he primarily conducted complex fraud investigations as a member of the United States Secret Service-East Texas Financial Crimes Task Force. In February 2019, Allen retired from the Tyler Police Department and moved into corporate security with The Home Depot before being elected Precinct 2 constable in November. Allen replaces Interim Precinct 2 Constable Shawn Scott, who was appointed by the Commissioners Court in October 2021. Scott recently was sworn in as police chief for Chapel Hill Independent School District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Retired Tyler Police Detective Wayne Allen was sworn in as Smith County Precinct 2 Constable Friday after recently being elected. Allen began working for the Tyler Police Department in 1991. He served in the patrol and traffic divisions before becoming a Financial Crimes Detective. In this role, he primarily conducted complex fraud investigations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1180832\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wayne Allen sworn in as Precinct 2 constable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1180838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/Wayne-Allen-Swearing-In-by-Judge-Skeen-111822-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Wayne Allen sworn in as Precinct 2 constable","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 04:54:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/Wayne-Allen-Swearing-In-by-Judge-Skeen-111822-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Wayne Allen sworn in as Precinct 2 constable","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180836,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180832\/revisions\/1180836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}