{"id":14940,"date":"2017-04-25T19:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=14940"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:58:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:58:03","slug":"fort-myers-police-foundation-funds-new-k-9-for-fmpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2017\/04\/25\/fort-myers-police-foundation-funds-new-k-9-for-fmpd\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers Police Foundation funds new K-9 for FMPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (April 25, 2017) \u2013 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmyerspolicefoundation.org\">Fort Myers Police Department<\/a> was able to purchase a new<\/p>\n<p>K-9 German Shepherd with funds donated by the Fort Myers Police Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Fort Myers initially purchased the new addition named Lord who is about 18 months old. The FMPF reimbursed the City Lord\u2019s $8,500 cost.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As with previous FMPD K-9s, Lord was imported from Germany. Officer Ezra Padgham will serve as Lord\u2019s handler.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Myers Police Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose goal is to help build a stronger bond between the community and its local police department. All funds raised by the Police Foundation go toward purchasing life-saving equipment for the Fort Myers Police Department and the community it serves. Since its formation in 2014, the Police Foundation has raised more than $150,000 that has gone toward purchasing medical kits for patrol cars, ballistic shields, electronic ear protection for shooting ranges, a Meggitt FATS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0L7 compact training simulator, a K-9 and more.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmyerspolicefoundation.org\/\">www.fortmyerspolicefoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (April 25, 2017) \u2013 The Fort Myers Police Department was able to purchase a new K-9 German Shepherd with funds donated by the Fort Myers Police Foundation&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1154,5906],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}