{"id":1258445,"date":"2023-09-12T06:38:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1258445"},"modified":"2023-09-14T03:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T08:47:16","slug":"coffee-city-police-department-deactivated-police-chief-terminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1258445","title":{"rendered":"Coffee City Police Department deactivated, police chief terminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1258446\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/coffecitybadge-153x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/coffecitybadge-153x175.jpg 153w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/coffecitybadge.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/>COFFEE CITY &#8212; The City Council of Coffee City voted to deactivate the Coffee City Police Department and terminate Chief of Police JohnJay Portillo at their meeting on Monday. According to our news partner KETK, the council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meeting agenda said these were matters to be considered during their executive session of their Monday night meeting. During that executive session they have reportedly gone through with the decision to deactivate their police department and terminate the employment of Chief Portillo. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We voted to fire and terminate him as the chief of police here at coffee city, effective immediately,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said councilman, Keith Skender. This decision came after an investigation by a Houston television station detailing Portillo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s past record.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As for the department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reserved officer program, which was found to be operating in Houston, the city voted to deactivate the entire department. The Henderson County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department will now cover all calls out of Coffee City until a new chief is appointed.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Blackstone said reserve program officers are all gone for good. As far as other active duty officers, they can go work for other departments or reapply when a new chief is established. Blackstone stated that the decision means the investigation is completely over because of how much time it would take to look into each officer. Future application will have extensive background check done.<\/p>\n<p>Portillo reportedly offered a resignation letter but it was declined by the council.<\/p>\n<p>The council also reportedly removed the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attorney, Ron Stutes, and appointed his replacement as Robert Davis with Flowers Davis Law Firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COFFEE CITY &#8212; The City Council of Coffee City voted to deactivate the Coffee City Police Department and terminate Chief of Police JohnJay Portillo at their meeting on Monday. According to our news partner KETK, the council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meeting agenda said these were matters to be considered during their executive session of their Monday night meeting. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1258445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coffee City Police Department deactivated, police chief terminated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1258448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/coffecitybadge-153x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Coffee City Police Department deactivated, police chief terminated","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 12:50:13","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\/09\/coffecitybadge-153x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Coffee City Police Department deactivated, police chief terminated","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258445","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258447,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258445\/revisions\/1258447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1258448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}