{"id":417592,"date":"2025-12-01T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417592\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:50:15","slug":"officer-with-68-years-at-jacksonville-pd-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417592\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer with 68 years at Jacksonville PD retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A fixture of the Jacksonville Police Department is retiring after 68 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officer XY Brown started as a volunteer with the department in 1957 while working as a truck driver at Camp Lejeune. Brown spent 14 years as a reservist and then became a school crossing guard in 1986, a position he still holds today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In June 1996, Brown was reclassified as a part-time police officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI remember even early on, that XY was serious about directing traffic at schools,\u201d says Mayor Sammy Phillips who was also a deputy police chief. \u201cHe would literally put people in timeout for not obeying the school zone laws. As Deputy Chief and as Mayor, I am proud that we have had XY in our community, keeping our students safe every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brown has been a fixture on Henderson Drive, making sure children at Northwoods Elementary School remained safe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department will honor Brown on Thursday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. at the Jacksonville Public Safety Remembrance Garden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A fixture of the Jacksonville Police Department is retiring after 68 years. Officer XY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[13772,5229,2625,3188,723,7310,7207,17171,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,195610,7827],"class_list":{"0":"post-417592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-13772","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-brown","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-retiring","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-xy","23":"tag-years"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115645344863784393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}