{"id":105,"date":"2012-10-04T01:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T01:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/?p=105"},"modified":"2012-12-13T01:59:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T01:59:07","slug":"sheriff-david-warren-recently-swore-in-two-newly-approved-reserve-deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/sheriff-david-warren-recently-swore-in-two-newly-approved-reserve-deputies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff David Warren recently swore in two newly approved Reserve Deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning, October 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, the Nolan County Sheriff\u2019s Office added two more members to its roster.\u00a0 However, these two men won\u2019t get paid a salary for their efforts.\u00a0 Stephen Smith II and Chad Mitchell were sworn in as Reserve Deputies for the Nolan County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Both men recently completed their training and graduated from Academy #88 of the West Central Texas Law Enforcement Academy in Abilene.\u00a0 Smith and Mitchell endured weekly night classes and Saturday classes over a 7 \u00bd month period to obtain the 796 classroom hours needed to finish the academy.\u00a0 Both took and passed their state licensing examinations and are now fully licensed peace officers.<\/p>\n<p>What sets these two apart is they both have other careers and are entering law enforcement in a volunteer capacity.\u00a0 \u201cThis is rare these days and very encouraging\u201d said Sheriff David Warren.\u00a0 \u201cVolunteerism is something that has declined in recent years and reserve officers used to be able to take a much more abbreviated amount of training to achieve their \u201creserve deputy\u201d status.\u00a0 Now they must take the same full amount of training as any full-time officer.\u201d said Warren.\u00a0 \u201cWe actually sponsored Stephen Smith through the academy and Chad Mitchell just chose us as his agency to volunteer for.\u00a0 These guys will be placed with experienced Deputies and go through a field training program and orientation with our Sheriff\u2019s Office\u201d explained Warren.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Smith II is the eldest son of local residents Steve and Jan Smith and works for U.S. Airways.\u00a0 Chad Mitchell lives in Abilene and is lead pastor for Mission Abilene and was instrumental in starting the program Stop the Violence now entering its sixth year.<\/p>\n<p>Both men have a genuine passion to be involved and help people in this area.\u00a0 Sheriff Warren emphasized, \u201cI am proud to have these two additional Deputies and certainly appreciate their unselfish attitude and willingness to risk their own lives to serve folks here in Nolan County in an un-paid capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning, October 2nd, the Nolan County Sheriff\u2019s Office added two more members to its roster.\u00a0 However, these two men won\u2019t get paid a salary for their efforts.\u00a0 Stephen Smith II and Chad Mitchell were sworn in as Reserve Deputies for the Nolan County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Both men recently completed their training and graduated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}