{"id":1336551,"date":"2024-07-05T23:17:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T04:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1336551"},"modified":"2024-07-08T19:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T00:41:26","slug":"van-mayor-says-chief-of-police-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1336551","title":{"rendered":"Van mayor says chief of police fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/2024-07-05_231714-199x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1336552\" \/>VAN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c According to our news partner KETK, Melissa Davis, the chief of police at Van Police Department, was fired on Monday, according to the mayor of Van, Tammy Huff.<br \/>\nThe City Council held a closed session at 7 p.m. on Friday to discuss \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of the Police Chief.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The council voted unanimously to table the matter until their next meeting on Thursday, July 11. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The status right now is she was terminated by our city manager, John Desha, on Monday, July 1,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Huff said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really all I can talk about, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a personnel matter.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>According to Clint McNear with the Texas Municipal Police Association, Davis was fired by the city manager John Desha via letter on Monday after Davis reportedly didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to fine victims of graffiti and instead organized the community to help clean the graffiti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VAN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c According to our news partner KETK, Melissa Davis, the chief of police at Van Police Department, was fired on Monday, according to the mayor of Van, Tammy Huff. The City Council held a closed session at 7 p.m. on Friday to discuss \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1336551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Van mayor says chief of police fired<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1336553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/2024-07-05_231714-199x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 19:59:00","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\/2024\/07\/2024-07-05_231714-199x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336551","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=1336551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336554,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336551\/revisions\/1336554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1336553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}