{"id":161873,"date":"2012-02-03T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=161873"},"modified":"2012-02-05T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T23:14:54","slug":"34-year-police-veteran-goecking-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=161873","title":{"rendered":"34-Year Police Veteran Goecking Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=162017\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-162017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/02\/Bill-Goecking-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bill Goecking\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-162017\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Sergeant Bill Goecking retires after 34 years of service with the Tyler Police Department. A ceremony in Goecking\u2019s honor was held Friday afternoon. Goecking was hired by the Tyler Police Department on July 19, 1977, where he worked a deep cover Vice operation at Robert E. Lee High School. In 1978 he worked the Patrol Division Midnight and Second Shift Patrol Operations. In 1980, he went back to the Vice Unit working undercover narcotics, gambling and prostitution abatement enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982, Goecking went to the Detective Division where he worked Crimes Against Persons, Homicides, Robberies and Assault cases with secondary assignments in Internal Affairs Investigations and Crimestoppers Assistant Coordinator. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant on December 9, 1993, and was transferred to Second Shift Patrol Division. In 1997 Goecking was assigned to supervise the North Substation Detective Unit until 1999, when he was again assigned to Second Shift Patrol Division.<\/p>\n<p>Goecking was assigned to the Major Crimes, I.D. and Juvenile Divisions in 2000 and once again went back to the Second Shift Patrol Division in 2002. In 2003 he supervised the Community Response Unit until he was assigned back to the Second Shift Patrol Division in 2006. Goecking was then assigned to Day Shift Patrol Division in 2007, where he remained until his retirement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Sergeant Bill Goecking retires after 34 years of service with the Tyler Police Department. A ceremony in Goecking\u2019s honor was held Friday afternoon. Goecking was hired by the Tyler Police Department on July 19, 1977, where he worked a deep cover Vice operation at Robert E. Lee High School. In 1978 he worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=161873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">34-Year Police Veteran Goecking Retires<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 22:36:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161873","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161873"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162175,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161873\/revisions\/162175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}