{"id":401178,"date":"2015-09-30T11:06:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=401178"},"modified":"2015-10-01T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:56:12","slug":"whitehouse-moves-closer-to-hiring-new-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=401178","title":{"rendered":"Whitehouse Moves Closer to Hiring New Police Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/Ed-Morris_1443627512375_5012817_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/Ed-Morris_1443627512375_5012817_ver1.0-149x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Morris_1443627512375_5012817_ver1.0\" width=\"149\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-401181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/Ed-Morris_1443627512375_5012817_ver1.0-149x200.jpg 149w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/Ed-Morris_1443627512375_5012817_ver1.0-336x450.jpg 336w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/Ed-Morris_1443627512375_5012817_ver1.0.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a>WHITEHOUSE &#8212; The city of Whitehouse hands out a conditional job offering for its vacant police chief position.  According to KETK, city officials say the job is being offered to Ed Morris, a retired Grand Prairie police officer. The candidate has more than 40 years of law enforcement experience, including nine as a police chief with the city of Balch Springs.  The job offer still hinges on a background investigation and drug screening.  According to the city of Whitehouse, Morris was one of four final candidates and was unanimously selected by a board made up of department heads and local citizens.  A start date has not been determined.  Previous Whitehouse Police Chief Craig Shelton resigned on July 27.  Detective Scott Bradley has been serving as interim police chief.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>In other Whitehouse news, City Manager Kevin Huckabee will keep his job for another year. His contract renewed automatically since the city did not take any action.  The pact can still be terminated at any moment with 90 days&#8217; severance notice.  Huckabee had been serving on a probationary basis in the wake of a disturbance earlier this year involving Huckabee, Shelton, and other city employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHITEHOUSE &#8212; The city of Whitehouse hands out a conditional job offering for its vacant police chief position. According to KETK, city officials say the job is being offered to Ed Morris, a retired Grand Prairie police officer. The candidate has more than 40 years of law enforcement experience, including nine as a police chief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=401178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whitehouse Moves Closer to Hiring New Police Chief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":401181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 01:19:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401178","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401335,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401178\/revisions\/401335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/401181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}