First Posted: 3/29/2013

GREENVILLE — Rudy Oxendine, a native of Rowland, was recently promoted from corporal to the rank of police sergeant at the Greenville Police Department.

A graduate of East Carolina University, Oxendine holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. He serves in the Patrol Bureau, where he will be assigned as the sergeant of the D Platoon. Oxendine also serves the department as an In-service Instructor and as a member of the Emergency Response Team. He has been a Greenville police officer for nine years and worked with the Ayden Police Department before coming to Greenville.

His promotion became effective March 23.