{"id":148444,"date":"2026-02-09T01:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148444\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T01:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:18:10","slug":"dolphins-escort-police-patrolling-florida-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148444\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins &#8216;Escort&#8217; Police Patrolling Florida Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dolphins \u201cescorted\u201d police patrolling the coast of Clearwater, Florida, recently posted footage shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Clearwater Police Department (CPD) posted this footage to Facebook with a caption reading, \u201cIt\u2019s always nice to get a dolphin escort on our police boat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This isn\u2019t CPD\u2019s first run-in with the marine mammals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1186781553130431\/?s=single_unit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:footage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">footage<\/a> from January shows dolphins playing in the wake of a patrol boat. Credit: Clearwater Police Department via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolphins \u201cescorted\u201d police patrolling the coast of Clearwater, Florida, recently posted footage shows. The Clearwater Police Department (CPD)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1339,36482,1250,1292,28,30,29,71770,71771],"class_list":["post-148444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-clearwater","tag-clearwater-police-department","tag-dolphins","tag-facebook","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-footage-shows","tag-marine-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}