{"id":46994,"date":"2018-06-13T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=46994"},"modified":"2018-06-13T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T17:03:13","slug":"oxford-police-department-finishes-in-second-place-in-national-fitness-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-police-department-finishes-in-second-place-in-national-fitness-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Police Department Finishes in Second Place in National Fitness Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Oxford Police Department Major <strong>Jeff McCutchen<\/strong>, Sergeant <strong>Ben Hamilton<\/strong>, Sergeant <strong>Joshua Shipp<\/strong>, Corporal <strong>Zach Anderson<\/strong>, and Officer <strong>Jeremiah Brown<\/strong> competed in the 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual National Law Fit Challenge last week in Desoto County, Mississippi. The Law Fit Challenge consists of a maximum bench press, one minute timed sit-up, flexibility test, pull-ups, a 1.5 mile run, and a 200 yard agility course. There were 130 competitors from all across the country.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_3897.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46997 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_3897.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis was the second time that the Oxford Police Department has finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0in the national completion,\u201d said Major McCutchen. \u201cWe are really proud of all the hard work that the guys put in going into the challenge. This is the fifth time the OPD 4-man team has finished in the Top 5 nationally.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cChief East has promoted an atmosphere of staying physically fit since taking over in 2013,\u201d McCutchen said. \u201cWe would like to thank him and our sponsors: Oxford GNC, Oxford Nutrishop, and Peak Specialist for giving us the time and resources to compete.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Among the list of awards won by OPD are: 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Place 4-man team, 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0place 2-man team, 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0place 2-man team, 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0place overall individuals, 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0and 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0place sit-ups, 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0place in 1.5 mile run, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0and 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0place in sit-and-reach, 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0and 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0place in pull-ups, and the Rookie of the Year (Jeremiah Brown).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford Police Department Major Jeff McCutchen, Sergeant Ben Hamilton, Sergeant Joshua Shipp, Corporal Zach Anderson, and Officer Jeremiah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":46995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[12730,12735,12729,12733,12731,5,12734,4,12736,12737,2092,12738,12732],"class_list":["post-46994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ben-hamilton","tag-desoto-county","tag-jeff-mccutchen","tag-jeremiah-brown","tag-joshua-shipp","tag-mississippi","tag-national-law-fit-challenge","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-gnc","tag-oxford-nutrishop","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-peak-specialist","tag-zach-anderson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_0768.jpg?fit=1397%2C1316&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}