{"id":32696,"date":"2025-11-01T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/32696\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T00:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:03:29","slug":"mcfarland-police-chief-resigns-for-new-job-adrian-olmos-named-acting-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/32696\/","title":{"rendered":"McFarland police chief resigns for new job, Adrian Olmos named acting chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) The McFarland City Manager confirmed that Police Chief Brian Knox has resigned to take another job. <\/p>\n<p>Knox, who was appointed interim police chief by the McFarland City Council in 2023, had been with the McFarland Police Department since November 1, 2022, initially serving as a police sergeant. <\/p>\n<p>His career began in 1992 as a detention deputy with the Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, where he later became a deputy sheriff. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Olmos, a former McFarland police captain, has been named the acting police chief. The McFarland City Manager stated, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be opening up the position soon to have a competitive recruitment process.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) The McFarland City Manager confirmed that Police Chief Brian Knox has resigned to take another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-32696","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\/32696","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=32696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}