{"id":735246,"date":"2026-06-14T01:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/735246\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:06:17","slug":"new-chair-for-police-board-in-surrey-b-c-after-former-chair-quit-in-protest-fraser-valley-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/735246\/","title":{"rendered":"New chair for police board in Surrey, B.C., after former chair quit in protest | Fraser Valley Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781292972_721_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Surrey Police patch is worn by an officer at RCMP &#8220;E&#8221; Division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan Cairns<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 12, 2026 | 10:53 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SURREY \u2014 The police board in Surrey, B.C., says it has chosen its next chair, days after the last chair resigned over a controversial dismissal of the city\u2019s police chief.<\/p>\n<p>The Surrey Police Board says in a statement that it will be electing board member Perm Jawanda as its next chair.<\/p>\n<p>Former chair and Semiahmoo First Nation Chief Harley Chappell stepped down last week, citing his opposition to the decision to fire Chief Const. Norm Lipinski.<\/p>\n<p>Chappell said that the \u201cpolitical tentacles and pressures have reached too deeply\u201d into the board and the board made the decision at a special meeting that he did not attend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Surrey Police patch is worn by an officer at RCMP &#8220;E&#8221; Division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,44937,87674],"class_list":["post-735246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chilliwack-news-fraser-valley-abbotsford-weather-traffic-lower-mainland-fvt","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735246","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=735246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}