{"id":162776,"date":"2026-02-13T05:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162776\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:29:14","slug":"three-lubbock-police-officers-retire-after-years-of-service-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162776\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Lubbock Police officers retire after years of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Three Lubbock Police officers are saying goodbye to the badge after years of service to the Hub City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sergeant James Sullivan, Detective David Paulk and Officer Mike Garcia are all retiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detective Paulk and Officer Garcia are looking forward to civilian life, while Sergeant Sullivan is heading to work for the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe people, working with the people, primarily the officers that I work for and then helping the citizens out as well,\u201d Sullivan said about what he\u2019ll miss most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officer Garcia said his most memorable time was \u201cmost likely my time spent with the honor guard, the last 25 years that I spent with them, and showing honor and grace from our department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detective Paulk said he\u2019s excited about retirement. \u201cI\u2019m excited about it, can\u2019t wait to get out there as a civilian. I know I\u2019ll be safe because I got my brothers in blue backing me up and protecting the city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All three said they\u2019re going to miss working on the force, but they know they have a brotherhood for life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For their dedicated service, these officers also went home with City of Lubbock street signs with their names on them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Three Lubbock Police officers are saying goodbye to the badge after years of service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-162776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}