{"id":28750,"date":"2025-09-04T07:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=28750"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:23:35","slug":"dyer-joins-decatur-pd-mitchel-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/dyer-joins-decatur-pd-mitchel-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyer joins Decatur PD; Mitchel leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Decatur Police Department has lost an officer but remains at full strength due to a new hire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conrad Dyer has joined the department and is already on duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Mitchel is leaving the local PD to join the Indiana State Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s been with us just over six years and he&#8217;s been a great officer for us,\u201d Chief Kevin Gerber said of Mitchel as he brought the resignation to the city&#8217;s board of works and safety. \u201cHe&#8217;s going to a better offer than we can provide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sept. 12 is Mitchel&#8217;s resignation date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"523\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Conrad-dyer.jpg?resize=523%2C607&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28751\" style=\"width:224px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Conrad-dyer.jpg?w=523&amp;ssl=1 523w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Conrad-dyer.jpg?resize=258%2C300&amp;ssl=1 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dyer, 22, has been a confinement officer at the Adams County Jail for four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since he has been a jail employee, the 2021 graduate of Bellmont High School has passed all required tests, including PERF, so he could join the department immediately upon his hiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will, however, have to attend the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy at Plainfield in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The addition of Dyer keeps the Decatur PD at full force: 20 officers, including Gerber and Deputy Chief Chris Brite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The Decatur Police Department has lost an officer but remains at full strength due<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-28750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28761,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28750\/revisions\/28761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}