{"id":142798,"date":"2026-01-21T07:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142798\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:27:35","slug":"fresno-police-chief-on-departments-new-therapy-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142798\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno police chief on department&#8217;s new therapy dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno Police Department recently revealed its first-ever therapy dog, which will help bring comfort and calm to officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The program includes peer support, critical incident debriefings, therapy, family support and various tools for overcoming adversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno Police Department recently revealed its first-ever therapy dog, which will help bring comfort and calm to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,1057,71631,32241],"class_list":["post-142798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police-department","tag-overcoming-adversity","tag-peer-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142798","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=142798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}