{"id":282290,"date":"2026-09-09T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282290\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:44:07","slug":"longtime-bensalem-twp-police-officer-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282290\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Bensalem Twp. Police Officer Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 The Bensalem Township Police Department has said goodbye to a longtime member.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sgt. Glenn Vandegrift was recently honored by township officials for his 28 years of service with the police department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/bensalem\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, Vandegrift served as a SWAT team member for over 10 years, as well as a firearms instructor. <\/p>\n<p>Township officials said that Vandegrift also became the department&#8217;s expert in crime scene processing, fingerprint analysis, blood spatter, and DNA processing.<\/p>\n<p> In addition to his investigative expertise, Vandegrift played a key role in advancing the department&#8217;s technology initiatives, including drone operations, using drones as first responders, bus patrol, and the real-time crime center. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank Sergeant Vandegrift for his years of exceptional service and wish him the best in retirement,&#8221; township officials said,<\/p>\n<p>(Bensalem Township <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 The Bensalem Township Police Department has said goodbye to a longtime member. Detective Sgt.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-282290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}