{"id":204182,"date":"2026-03-04T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204182\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:55:24","slug":"former-oakland-police-chief-floyd-mitchell-hired-to-lead-fremont-police-department-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204182\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell Hired To Lead Fremont Police Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 4, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Former Oakland police chief Floyd Mitchell has been appointed to lead the police department in the city of Fremont.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Tuesday, officials said city manager Karena Shackelford appointed Mitchell following a nationwide search.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Floyd Mitchell brings more than three decades of law enforcement experience to Fremont and a well earned reputation for steady, thoughtful leadership,&#8221; Shackelford said. &#8220;Having strong experience as police chief in prior agencies, he has demonstrated time and again his integrity, accountability, and fairness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772646924_256_floyd-mitchell.jpg#.jpeg\" data- \/><\/p>\n<p> Former Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell, who was announced as chief of the Fremont Police Department on March 3, 2026\/Oakland Police Department\/CBS News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 4, 2026 Former Oakland police chief Floyd Mitchell has been appointed to lead the police department in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-204182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204182","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=204182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}