{"id":1222156,"date":"2023-04-28T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1222156"},"modified":"2023-04-30T17:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T22:25:21","slug":"athens-police-chief-steps-down-to-move-to-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1222156","title":{"rendered":"Athens Police Chief steps down to move to private sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/densmore-backrgound-175x98.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"98\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1222157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/densmore-backrgound-175x98.webp 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/densmore-backrgound-550x310.webp 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/densmore-backrgound-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/densmore-backrgound.webp 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>ATHENS \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Athens Police Chief John Densmore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last day with the department was Friday, the city announced. According to our news partner KETK, Densmore announced his resignation in order to go into the private sector. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153During his tenure, Chief Densmore has worked tirelessly to keep our city safe and enhance the quality of life for all of our citizens,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to a release from the city. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On behalf of the city, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude for his dedicated service to our community. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors and are confident that he will continue to make a positive impact in his new role.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Previously, Densmore worked at the Cedar Hill Police Department as a Lieutenant before moving to Athens and becoming chief in February 2021. The search for a new police chief will begin immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Athens Police Chief John Densmore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last day with the department was Friday, the city announced. According to our news partner KETK, Densmore announced his resignation in order to go into the private sector. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153During his tenure, Chief Densmore has worked tirelessly to keep our city safe and enhance the quality of life for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1222156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athens Police Chief steps down to move to private sector<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1222160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/densmore-backrgound-175x98.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Athens Police Chief steps down to move to private sector","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 12:32:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/densmore-backrgound-175x98.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Athens Police Chief steps down to move to private sector","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222249,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222156\/revisions\/1222249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1222160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}