{"id":30404,"date":"2025-10-28T17:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=30404"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:55:25","slug":"na-resource-officer-elwell-gains-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/na-resource-officer-elwell-gains-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"NA resource officer Elwell gains praise"},"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>North Adams Schools Resource Officer Andrew Elwell came in for some praise at a recent meeting of Decatur City Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barb Engle talked briefly about a recent donation the Adams County Retired Teachers Assocation, of which she is a member, made to a fund to support the Decatur Police Department&#8217;s K-9, Koda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Koda works with Elwell in the schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engle, a former member of city council and the Indiana Legislature, told council that Elwell was someone the department and community can be \u201cvery, very proud of.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe is such a fine gentleman.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe is doing a wonderful job out there (North Adams),\u201d Mayor Dan Rickord added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May of 2024, Elwell was named to the post, working at Bellmont high and middle schools, and began the duties at the beginning of the current school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in his sixth year with the department, Elwell replaced Trent Busse in the post at the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAPERWORK: Prior to the council meeting, the board of works and safety approved a certificate of appointment for Conrad Dyer, the city&#8217;s latest addition to the police department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dyer, 22, had been a confinement officer at the Adams County Jail for four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re excited to have him,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since he held that position, the 2021 graduate of Bellmont High School had passed all required tests, including PERF, so he could join the department immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will, however, have to attend the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy at Plainfield.<\/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\n\n\n<p>Eric Mitchel left the department in September to join the Indiana State Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com North Adams Schools Resource Officer Andrew Elwell came in for some praise at a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-30404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30404","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=30404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30405,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30404\/revisions\/30405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}