{"id":113978,"date":"2025-12-30T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/113978\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:45:15","slug":"kingsburg-police-chief-retires-after-40-year-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/113978\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingsburg police chief retires after 40-year career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Kingsburg Lt. Shaun Stephens was previously named Dadian&#8217;s successor and will take over the role on December 31.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, December 30, 2025 2:46PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Kingsburg police chief retires after 40-year career\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">KINGSBURG, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Kingsburg Police Department is saying farewell to its chief, as he retires from his job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Neil Dadian&#8217;s law enforcement career has spanned 44 years, including the last 11 as Kingsburg&#8217;s Chief of Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The department says he helped modernize the facility, has provided steady guidance and has attracted and retained talented officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/chat-with-the-chief-neil-dadian-kingsburg-police-public-safety\/14227475\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chief Dadian was previously on Live at Three<\/a> to talk about officer outreach and building trust within the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kingsburg Lt. Shaun Stephens was previously named Dadian&#8217;s successor and will take over the role on December 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Kingsburg City Council will also officially recognize Dadian during their next regular City Council meeting on January 7.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kingsburg Lt. Shaun Stephens was previously named Dadian&#8217;s successor and will take over the role on December 31.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[61067,112,114,113,61065,61066,15635,8523,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-113978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-61067","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-kingsburg","13":"tag-neil-dadian","14":"tag-police-chief","15":"tag-retirement","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}