The Long Beach Police Department announced Thursday that three lieutenants have been promoted to the rank of commander.<\/p>\n
Lieutenants Danielle Quinones, Justin Krueger and Joshua Brearley were selected for promotion, effective Saturday, according to Long Beach Police Chief Wally Hebeish.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach of these leaders demonstrates a commitment to the growth, support and success of our department,\u201d the chief said in a statement. \u201cThey have all expressed a passion and desire to help lead our organization into the future as we continue to keep our entire community safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quinones began her career with the department as an officer in 2006. She was promoted to sergeant in 2020, and lieutenant in 2022.<\/p>\n
Krueger joined the department, also as an officer, in 2003. He was promoted to sergeant in 2019 and lieutenant in 2022.<\/p>\n
Brearley became an LBPD officer in 2004, rose to the rank of sergeant in 2017 and became a lieutenant in 2023.<\/p>\n
Qinones, Krueger and Brearly join Shaleana Benson and Steven Costa as department commanders.<\/p>\n
As of Saturday, Benson will command the department\u2019s Detective Division, Costa its West Division, Quinones the East Division, Krueger the South Division and Brearly the department\u2019s Security Services Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Beach Police Department announced Thursday that three lieutenants have been promoted to the rank of commander.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,12033,6246,17740,87291,131,133,132,236,68759],"class_list":{"0":"post-184989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-beach","9":"tag-commander","10":"tag-department","11":"tag-elevates","12":"tag-liutenants","13":"tag-long-beach","14":"tag-long-beach-headlines","15":"tag-long-beach-news","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-rank"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184989","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=184989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}