{"id":142306,"date":"2026-01-21T00:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142306\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:14:08","slug":"chat-with-the-chief-fresno-police-chief-on-departments-new-therapy-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142306\/","title":{"rendered":"Chat with the Chief: Fresno police chief on department&#8217;s new therapy dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, January 20, 2026 11:36PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Chat with the Chief: Fresno police chief on department's new therapy dog\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Fresno Police Department recently revealed its first-ever therapy dog, which will help bring comfort and calm to officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It&#8217;s part of the city of Fresno&#8217;s Public Safety Wellness Program that is dedicated to the health and well-being of police and fire personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The program includes peer support, critical incident debriefings, therapy, family support and various tools for overcoming adversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Police Chief Mindy Casto joined us with Officer Manriquez and the department&#8217;s newest recruit, Savannah, to talk about the importance of officer wellness and the impact already made by this rescue pup.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, January 20, 2026 11:36PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Fresno Police Department recently revealed its first-ever therapy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[71447,71445,112,114,113,13116,35342,71446,294],"class_list":["post-142306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-71447","tag-chat-with-the-chief","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-mindy-casto","tag-officers","tag-therapy-dog","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}