{"id":61895,"date":"2026-01-29T18:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=61895"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:29:58","slug":"the-lakeland-police-department-is-proud-to-be-a-part-of-the-polk-heroes-literacy-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/29\/the-lakeland-police-department-is-proud-to-be-a-part-of-the-polk-heroes-literacy-program\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lakeland Police Department is proud to be a part of the Polk Heroes Literacy Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Neighborhood Liaison Officers enjoyed spending time reading with this amazing group of preschoolers! The Lakeland Police Department is proud to be a part of the Polk Heroes Literacy Program, sharing stories with the children at Hadley&#8217;s Early Education Preschool.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc99\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t6c\/1\/16\/1f499.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"817872\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #817872;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"744\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622799914_915243380892840_5727061112513742384_n-1024x744.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61896 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622799914_915243380892840_5727061112513742384_n-1024x744.webp 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622799914_915243380892840_5727061112513742384_n-300x218.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622799914_915243380892840_5727061112513742384_n-768x558.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622799914_915243380892840_5727061112513742384_n-1536x1116.webp 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622799914_915243380892840_5727061112513742384_n.webp 2048w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This monthly program with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ELCPolk?__cft__[0]=AZamOWK0SOstCUkIas0gFHP0NCNFrc6jV9-_ZQYN81cSy6RlCiquMRvPAc46VTRi74bVEvYNIWmLsSodCqEHq94TthMUtuhfr32osLgl__PUo4pLZy9k5eL90J0UZlzGSOhQOGnU-v4sclSE0-kq7lj1Yj9iJ8EyDtpRBK88bFxWEw&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\">Early Learning Coalition of Polk County<\/a> (ELCPC) is a reading initiative designed to promote early literacy in the classroom while building positive connections between children of our community and law enforcement officers and first responders. Additionally, each child is given a copy of the book that was read to take home to encourage continued literacy for the child and the family. The books are graciously provided by the ELCPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"7c7770\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7c7770;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-id=\"61898\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/621856365_915243377559507_6514453745261345396_n-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61898 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/621856365_915243377559507_6514453745261345396_n-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/621856365_915243377559507_6514453745261345396_n-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/621856365_915243377559507_6514453745261345396_n-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/621856365_915243377559507_6514453745261345396_n-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/621856365_915243377559507_6514453745261345396_n.webp 2048w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"6a5e4e\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #6a5e4e;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-id=\"61897\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622784183_915243647559480_3277385911230805964_n-1024x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61897 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622784183_915243647559480_3277385911230805964_n-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622784183_915243647559480_3277385911230805964_n-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622784183_915243647559480_3277385911230805964_n-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622784183_915243647559480_3277385911230805964_n-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622784183_915243647559480_3277385911230805964_n-1536x1536.webp 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622784183_915243647559480_3277385911230805964_n-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622784183_915243647559480_3277385911230805964_n.webp 1599w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Neighborhood Liaison Officers enjoyed spending time reading with this amazing group of preschoolers! The Lakeland Police Department is proud to be a part of the Polk Heroes Literacy Program,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDFcLzYyMjc5OTkxNF85MTUyNDMzODA4OTI4NDBfNTcyNzA2MTExMjUxMzc0MjM4NF9uLndlYnA_Zml0PTEwMjQlMkM3NDQmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJUaGUgTGFrZWxhbmQgUG9saWNlIERlcGFydG1lbnQgaXMgcHJvdWQgdG8gYmUgYSBwYXJ0IG9mIHRoZSBQb2xrIEhlcm9lcyBMaXRlcmFjeSBQcm9ncmFtIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.dAZ4Muabz8W7mkWykJ9rKyN8TFrfIACMy9UWUZRvIFAMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":61896,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/622799914_915243380892840_5727061112513742384_n.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[13406],"class_list":["post-61895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-the-lakeland-police-department-is-proud-to-be-a-part-of-the-polk-heroes-literacy-program"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61899,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61895\/revisions\/61899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}