{"id":714155,"date":"2026-06-04T08:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/714155\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:43:14","slug":"why-was-surreys-police-chief-pushed-out-and-what-happens-next-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/714155\/","title":{"rendered":"Why was Surrey&#8217;s police chief pushed out and what happens next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Surrey Police Board announced Tuesday that chief constable Norm Lipinski had left the service. Now-former police board chair Harley Chappell said the board made the decision to remove Lipinski at a special meeting that Chappell did not attend, leading him to resign in protest. The CBC\u2019s Katie DeRosa has more on what role the province played, how it will impact the transition from RCMP to a municipal force, and ultimately what might happen next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Surrey Police Board announced Tuesday that chief constable Norm Lipinski had left the service. Now-former police board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[197319,49,48,258019,258766,87674,104653],"class_list":["post-714155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-brenda-locke","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-norm-lipinski","tag-police-force","tag-surrey","tag-surrey-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}