{"id":32399,"date":"2025-10-31T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/32399\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:25:07","slug":"bakersfield-police-chief-greg-terry-announces-retirement-after-nearly-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/32399\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Police Chief Greg Terry announces retirement after nearly six years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Greg%20Terry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bakersfield Police Chief Greg Terry<\/a> informed department personnel and the City Manager of his plan to retire in April 2026, after nearly six years with the department.<\/p>\n<p>According to a social media post, Chief Greg Terry said:<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Serving as Chief has been one of the greatest honors of my professional life. I am incredibly proud of the men and women of this department; their dedication, courage, and unwavering commitment to serve. I am equally grateful for the tremendous support, partnership, and trust we have received from our community. Together, we have accomplished so much, and I am confident in the department\u2019s continued success. As we move through this transition, we will stay true to our mission; partnering with our community and serving with compassion, accountability, and professionalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield Police Chief Greg Terry informed department personnel and the City Manager of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-32399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32399","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=32399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}