{"id":25198,"date":"2015-04-07T17:11:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=25198"},"modified":"2015-04-07T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T21:11:53","slug":"clarke-named-to-head-e-marlborough-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=25198","title":{"rendered":"Clarke named to head E. Marlborough PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em><strong>Veteran officer to replace retiring Gerald Davis<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>By Karen Cresta<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Correspondent, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EastMarlboroughPD-243x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1083212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EastMarlboroughPD-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"EastMarlboroughPD\" \/><\/a>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2013 Robert Clarke, former township police lieutenant and officer, was appointed as the township\u2019s new Police Chief at the regular monthly supervisor\u2019s meeting on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke\u2019s predecessor, Gerald Davis \u2014 the township\u2019s first-ever police chief \u2014 retired at the end of February.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke has served in law enforcement for 32 years and as an officer in the township since 2003. His appointment as chief is effective immediately.\u00a0 He will be officially sworn-in at a ceremony at the police facilities located behind the township building on Saturday, April 25, at 9:00 a.m.\u00a0 The public is invited to attend the ceremony and tour the new police facilities trailer that was recently replaced.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chairman Cuyler Walker said in a prepared statement that, \u201cGerry served the citizens of East Marlborough faithfully and with dedication for over 12 years.\u00a0 We are fortunate to have someone of Clarkie\u2019s caliber and experience within our ranks to take on this critical role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran officer to replace retiring Gerald Davis By Karen Cresta, Correspondent, The Times EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2013 Robert Clarke, former township police lieutenant and officer, was appointed as the township\u2019s new Police Chief at the regular monthly supervisor\u2019s meeting on Monday night. Clarke\u2019s predecessor, Gerald Davis \u2014 the township\u2019s first-ever police chief \u2014 retired at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[38,583,6962],"class_list":["post-25198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-east-marlborough","tag-police","tag-robert-clarke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25199,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198\/revisions\/25199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}