{"id":351910,"date":"2026-06-08T18:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351910\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:46:36","slug":"oakland-police-commission-compiles-list-of-finalists-for-opd-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351910\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland police commission compiles list of finalists for OPD chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oakland Police Commission Thursday submitted a slate of final candidates to Mayor Barbara Lee for consideration as the city’s next permanent police chief, fulfilling its charter-mandated role in the selection process.<\/p>\n

Last month, the commission voted to forward the finalists<\/a> after a months-long search that included six community meetings across Oakland and an online survey that drew nearly 200 responses.<\/p>\n

Commission officials said feedback from residents helped identify priorities and expectations for the city’s next police chief.<\/p>\n

The commission said those themes were incorporated into candidate interviews and evaluations in partnership with executive search firm Ralph Anderson & Associates.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the commission said it received strong interest from applicants seeking to lead the Oakland Police Department as the city continues efforts to improve public safety and maintain compliance with a federal court-mandated reform agreement.<\/p>\n

The names of the finalists were not released, citing the confidentiality of personnel information. James Beere has served as OPD\u2019s interim police chief <\/a>last November, succeeding Floyd Mitchell, who resigned after a year-and-a-half, to become Fremont\u2019s top cop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oakland Police Commission Thursday submitted a slate of final candidates to Mayor Barbara Lee for consideration as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-351910","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\/351910","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=351910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}