{"id":49502,"date":"2019-06-17T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/these-two-officers-are-set-to-join-the-force\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:20:00","slug":"these-two-officers-are-set-to-join-the-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/these-two-officers-are-set-to-join-the-force\/","title":{"rendered":"These two officers are set to join the force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<p>Though it will still be a few months until they&rsquo;re full-time police officers, two future Juneau Police Department officers finished one very challenging step last week. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Jonah Hennings-Booth and Duain White graduated from the Public Training Academy in Sitka in a ceremony this past Friday. They still have to do JPD&rsquo;s field training program, which takes at least 14 weeks.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>The two were sworn in during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/meet-jpds-two-newest-officers\/\" target=\"_blank\">a ceremony at JPD in February<\/a>, and both spoke to the Empire at that time. They are both Alaska Native, as Hennings-Booth is Inupiaq while White is Tlingit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D2263051273947169%26id%3D1487310934854544&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"701\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>White, who was 32 in February, said at the time that having more Alaska Native representation in the department is good for the community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s very important for people to see us in uniform, someone people can relate to and feel more comfortable seeing someone from the same culture,&rdquo; White said. &ldquo;I can also be a positive role model for other Native kids and see that lifestyle is possible as long as you focus and push yourself and be a positive person.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-attachment in-story\"><a href='https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers02.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers02.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Amber White laughs as she pins a badge on her husband, Duain White, of Juneau, center, during a ceremony for new officers at the Juneau Police Department station on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Chief of Police Ed Mercer,right, sworn in White and Jonah Hennings-Booth, of Eagle River, left. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers02.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers02-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers02-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers02-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1199px) 98vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"p-exclude\">Amber White laughs as she pins a badge on her husband, Duain White, of Juneau, center, during a ceremony for new officers at the Juneau Police Department station on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Chief of Police Ed Mercer,right, sworn in White and Jonah Hennings-Booth, of Eagle River, left. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t<p>Hennings-Booth, who was 23 in February, has worked for the Alaska Wildlife Troopers as a public safety technician. Born in Anchorage and raised in Eagle River and Nome, Hennings-Booth said it was important to him to stay in Alaska. He said in February that he&rsquo;s drawn to law enforcement because of the unpredictable nature of the job.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>&ldquo;When I was a public safety technician with the wildlife troopers, I never knew what my day was going to entail,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know if I was going to be doing an investigation on a bear that was poached, if I was going to be doing commercial fishing patrolling or if anyone was not inside the district and not abiding by the laws and regulations set by the state. It&rsquo;s completely different on a day-to-day basis.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-attachment in-story\"><a href='https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers04.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers04.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Duain White, of Juneau, receives a long hug by his aunt Amy Starbard after he was sworn in as a new officer during a ceremony at the Juneau Police Department station on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers04.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers04-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers04-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers04-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/17325994_web1_190221New_Police_Officers04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1199px) 98vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"p-exclude\">Duain White, of Juneau, receives a long hug by his aunt Amy Starbard after he was sworn in as a new officer during a ceremony at the Juneau Police Department station on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They graduated from academy last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":49503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[59,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-49502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-crime","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49502"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}