{"id":6813,"date":"2026-02-17T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/?p=6813"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:11:17","slug":"photos-of-the-week-vfw-officer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/photos-of-the-week-vfw-officer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the Week: VFW Officer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryan Police Officers Association, I.U.P.A. Local #115 Vice President Justin Coffman was named the 2025 VFW Officer of the Year!<\/p>\n

Bryan Police Department shared about it on social media, \u201cThe Bryan Police Department is pleased to announce that Detective Justin Coffman has been named the 2025 VFW Officer of the Year, in recognition of his outstanding contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n

They continued, \u201cA ceremony was held this evening to honor his exceptional achievements. Detective Coffman’s dedication to the community and his work ethic have earned him this distinguished recognition. Job well done!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Each week, the I.U.P.A. Briefing Room features a photo that exemplifies the valuable part of the community that our Law Enforcement Officers all across the U.S. are and their positive impact as well as their dedication, service, and sacrifice.<\/p>\n

Submit your photos today to be considered for the photo of the week next week to alinaj@iupa.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6817,"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813\/revisions\/6817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iupa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}