{"id":321415,"date":"2026-06-03T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321415\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:33:07","slug":"killeen-police-department-explorers-earn-top-placements-at-central-texas-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321415\/","title":{"rendered":"Killeen Police Department Explorers earn top placements at Central Texas competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Killeen Police Department Explorers took home multiple trophies at the Central Texas Public Safety Cadet and Explorer Competition.<\/p>\n

KILLEEN, Texas \u2014 The Killeen Police Department Explorers program took home multiple trophies at a regional competition this May.<\/p>\n

The Killeen Police Department said its Explorers competed in the 2026 Central Texas Public Safety Cadet and Explorer Competition, hosted by the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, on Saturday, May 30.<\/p>\n


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The Explorers competed against 23 other Explorer and Public Safety Cadet teams from various law enforcement agencies across the state, and earned themselves some top honors in the process.<\/p>\n

KPD said the Explorers won first place in Domestic Disturbance and in Physical Fitness in the female category, and took home third place in Active Threat.<\/p>\n

“Excellent effort KPD Explorers and Advisors, and Congratulations!” KPD said in a post congratulating the Explorers.<\/p>\n

The Killeen Police Department Explorer program is an official program meant to “acquaint young people with the nature and complexity of Law Enforcement,” according to the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The program is intended to encourage young people to pursue careers in law enforcement and give the department an opportunity to evaluate each Explorer.<\/p>\n

KPD said the Explorer program brings participants and the police department together through meetings, projects, social functions and a ride along program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Killeen Police Department Explorers took home multiple trophies at the Central Texas Public Safety Cadet and Explorer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-321415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321415","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=321415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}