{"id":352092,"date":"2026-06-08T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352092\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:08:13","slug":"oakland-police-commission-submits-finalists-in-search-for-next-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352092\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Police Commission submits finalists in search for next police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Oakland Police Commission has submitted a slate of final candidates to Mayor Barbara Lee for consideration as the city\u2019s next permanent police chief, fulfilling its charter-mandated role in the selection process, the commission announced Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 28, the commission voted to forward the finalists after a months-long search that included six community meetings across Oakland and an online survey that drew nearly 200 responses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commission officials said feedback from residents helped identify priorities and expectations for the city\u2019s next police chief.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those themes were incorporated into candidate interviews and evaluations in partnership with executive search firm Ralph Anderson &amp; Associates, the commission said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The names of the finalists were not released, citing the confidentiality of personnel information.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oakland Police Commission has submitted a slate of final candidates to Mayor Barbara Lee for consideration as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,2351,332,734,2500,143,145,144,2453,407,15635,1492],"class_list":["post-352092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-barbara-lee","tag-east-bay","tag-law-enforcement","tag-leadership","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-police-commission","tag-oakland-police-department","tag-police-chief","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352092","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=352092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}