{"id":167465,"date":"2012-02-24T21:16:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T03:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=167465"},"modified":"2012-02-26T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T14:01:52","slug":"tyler-police-department-annual-awards-banquet-honorees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=167465","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Police Department Annual Awards Banquet Honorees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=167466\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-167466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/02\/thumb_police-tyler-badge1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_police-tyler-badge\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-167466\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; The Tyler Police Department held its Annual Awards Banquet Friday at the U.T. Tyler Ornelas Center.  During the ceremony, employees of the Tyler Police Department along with civilians were honored for their actions and service to the City of Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>MASTER AWARD WINNERS <\/p>\n<p>Officer of the Year &#8211; Officer Edgar Zapata<br \/>\nRookie of the Year &#8211; Officer Jason Compton<br \/>\nPlainclothes Officer of the Year &#8211; Detective Chris Miller<br \/>\nSworn Supervisor of the Year &#8211; Sergeant Billy Yates<br \/>\nUnit of the Year &#8211; Community Response Unit<br \/>\nCivilian Employee of the Year &#8211; Betsy Thrash<br \/>\nCivilian Supervisor of the Year &#8211; Elton Anderson<br \/>\nVolunteer of the Year &#8211; Kathy Becker<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Patrolman\u2019s Association Awards:<\/p>\n<p>President\u2019s Award &#8211; Mike McClain- G.M. of Allen Samuels East Texas Dodge<br \/>\nExcellence in Policing Award &#8211; Officer Jimmy Turner<br \/>\nHonorary Members &#8211; Judge Jack Skeen Jr. and David Dobbs<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Police Department Awards:<\/p>\n<p>Police Shield: Officer William Steinmiller<br \/>\nLife Saving Award: Officer Jimmy Turner (two awards)<br \/>\nCertificate of Merit: Officer Pat Mullican, Officer Chad Kersey, Officer Jessica Doughten, Detective Adam Colby, Detective Doyle Lynch, Detective Reggie Conley, DA Investigator Fabio Martinez<br \/>\nCitizens Certificate of Merit: Alvin Craig, Thadeus Yates, Brittany Kirkley, Loy Parker, Robert Hunt, Jackie Lynn Weaver, Roberto Quintane, Edward Gordon, Mayda Tabares, Edmund Johnson, Jon Hunea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Tyler Police Department held its Annual Awards Banquet Friday at the U.T. Tyler Ornelas Center. During the ceremony, employees of the Tyler Police Department along with civilians were honored for their actions and service to the City of Tyler. MASTER AWARD WINNERS Officer of the Year &#8211; Officer Edgar Zapata Rookie of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=167465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler Police Department Annual Awards Banquet Honorees<\/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-167465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 07:45:51","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\/167465","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=167465"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167641,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167465\/revisions\/167641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}