{"id":423045,"date":"2026-08-03T22:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423045\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:32:15","slug":"oakland-swears-in-new-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423045\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland swears in new police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; The Town of Oakland has sworn in a new police chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Larry Gaines, previously the assistant chief, replaces Chief Chris Earl, who retired at the end of July after 16 years in law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Oakland Police Chief Larry Gaines' swearing-in ceremony, Monday, August 3, 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4ZMG4NESXNFR5CRMHSKJKDCA4E.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Oakland Police Chief Larry Gaines&#8217; swearing-in ceremony, Monday, August 3, 2026(Oakland Police Department Facebook)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chief Gaines enters this new role after serving the Oakland Police Department for 25 years, starting as one of the town\u2019s first reserve officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe are excited to see him in this leadership role and for the future of the Oakland Police Department,\u201d officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to sign up for our newsletter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpc96d0EDHinF_AovDBi4RNoKbBfRbCIJiTWqF7p1VNE6ZNA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to report a spelling or grammar error. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; The Town of Oakland has sworn in a new police chief. Larry Gaines, previously&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[53713,26,28647,168813,53712,53708,53711,44975,168812,168814,8336,53707,53710,53709,143,145,144,53714,590,16975,8523,634,53715,168816,168815,53716,53430,53704,53706,53705],"class_list":["post-423045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bartlett","tag-breaking-news","tag-ceremony","tag-christ-earl","tag-collierville","tag-east-arkansas","tag-germantown","tag-i-40","tag-larry-gaines","tag-leadership-change","tag-memphis","tag-mid-south","tag-missouri-boothill","tag-north-mississippi","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-olive-branch","tag-police-department","tag-position","tag-retirement","tag-severe-weather","tag-southaven","tag-top-brass","tag-town-of-oakland","tag-west-memphis","tag-west-tennessee","tag-wmc-action-news-5","tag-wmc5","tag-wmctv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423045","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=423045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}