{"id":164117,"date":"2026-02-21T20:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164117\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:51:11","slug":"windermere-police-department-gets-reaccredited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164117\/","title":{"rendered":"Windermere Police Department gets reaccredited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h909598-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Windermere Police Department was accredited for the second time Thursday, Feb. 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909598-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">According to Chief David Ogden, the department underwent a rigorous on-site assessment, including a detailed review of procedures, policies, evidence handling, community engagement, training and accountability standards.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909598-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">\u00a0\u201cAccreditation is not a plaque on the wall,\u201d Ogden posted on social media. \u201cIt is a commitment. It is proof that we meet and maintain the highest professional standards in law enforcement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909598-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Ogden said the reaccreditation not only belongs to the police department, but to its civilian staff, full-time and reserve officers, volunteers and crossing guards, town leadership and the citizens of Windermere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h909598-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">\u201cThis is a shared accomplishment,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are proud to serve a community that expects excellence and partners with us in achieving it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Windermere Police Department was accredited for the second time Thursday, Feb. 19.\u00a0 According to Chief David Ogden,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-164117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164117","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=164117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}