Oakland\u2019s recently departed police chief, Floyd Mitchell, is taking over the top cop job at the city of Fremont, but it is unclear when he will actually get to work.<\/p>\n
Mitchell was selected following a national search \u2014 led by City Manager Karena Shackelford \u2014 to replace Fremont\u2019s last chief, Sean Washington.<\/p>\n
Washington announced his retirement in June and has been serving as interim chief ever since.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to sharing more information in a formal press release, following the completion of the hiring process,\u201d Fremont spokesperson Geneva Bosques said in an email Friday.<\/p>\n
Mitchell, the former police chief in Lubbock, Texas, left Oakland on Dec. 5 after only about 20 months on the job. He hasn\u2019t given a reason for his departure.<\/p>\n
Mitchell was hired as Oakland\u2019s chief after then-mayor Sheng Thao fired LeRonne Armstrong in early 2023, after which the department went a year without a permanent replacement. Armstrong also only held the job for about two years.<\/p>\n
Since 2017, Oakland has had six different chiefs or interim chiefs.<\/p>\n
Currently, the city\u2019s Police Commission, a civilian oversight board, is working with City Administrator Jestin Johnson to find a recruiting firm, which will then help track down candidates to replace Oakland\u2019s current interim chief, James Beere.<\/p>\n
The commission will then select three candidates to present to Mayor Barbara Lee, who can choose one to hire or reject the entire slate.<\/p>\n
The city hasn\u2019t committed publicly to a timeline to replace Beere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland\u2019s recently departed police chief, Floyd Mitchell, is taking over the top cop job at the city of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,21117,4304,963,332,93,4306,394,81834,405,734,143,145,144,2453,407,81835,81836,81837,13,1492,8523,81838],"class_list":["post-170650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-appointment","tag-chief-floyd-mitchell","tag-city-government","tag-east-bay","tag-featured","tag-featured-news","tag-fremont","tag-fremont-police-department","tag-government","tag-law-enforcement","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-police-commission","tag-oakland-police-department","tag-police-chiefs","tag-police-leadership","tag-police-oversight","tag-politics","tag-public-safety","tag-retirement","tag-sean-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170650","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=170650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}