{"id":619459,"date":"2017-05-22T21:25:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T02:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=619459"},"modified":"2017-05-23T21:25:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T02:25:03","slug":"palestines-interim-police-chief-changes-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=619459","title":{"rendered":"Palestine&#8217;s Interim Police Chief Changes Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/John-Herod.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/John-Herod-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-619460\" \/><\/a>PALESTINE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Palestine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Interim Police Chief, John Herod, has resigned from the post to become the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Emergency Management Director. City Manager Mike Alexander said the administration \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fully supports Herod\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s transition into the role.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In Herod\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s place, Lt. R.C. Johnson has been named as the interim police chief while a search begins for a permanent chief. Alexander said during Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s City Council meeting the search for a permanent chief will begin immediately.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Herod replaces Scott Parkhurst, who resigned as the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Emergency Management Director earlier in May. Through discussions with Herod on the position, Alexander felt Herod would be the right person for the vacant job. <\/p>\n<p> Both Herod and his replacement, Johnson, are veterans of the department. Before his role as interim chief, Johnson was most recently the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division. Before his time at CID, Johnson was also the Lieutenant in charge of the Patrol Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALESTINE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Palestine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Interim Police Chief, John Herod, has resigned from the post to become the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Emergency Management Director. City Manager Mike Alexander said the administration \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fully supports Herod\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s transition into the role.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In Herod\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s place, Lt. R.C. Johnson has been named as the interim police chief while a search begins for a permanent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=619459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palestine&#8217;s Interim Police Chief Changes Posts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":619460,"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-619459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 12:12:02","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\/619459","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=619459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619461,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619459\/revisions\/619461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/619460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}