{"id":864164,"date":"2026-08-19T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864164\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:46:10","slug":"montreals-fady-dagher-is-elected-to-lead-national-association-of-police-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864164\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal&#8217;s Fady Dagher is elected to lead national association of police chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fady Dagher, Montreal\u2019s police chief since 2023, has been elected president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police for a two-year term, the Montreal force said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was named to the role at the association\u2019s annual summit in Edmonton. He succeeds Thomas Carrique, commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, who became president in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the role, Dagher will take the lead in setting the association\u2019s national public safety priorities, as well as representing the chiefs in debates about matters affecting communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he was sworn in as Montreal\u2019s police chief, Dagher became the first racialized person to lead the force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally of Lebanese origin, he grew up in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. He speaks six languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic and Dioula.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fady Dagher, Montreal\u2019s police chief since 2023, has been elected president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-864164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864164","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=864164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}