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SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\nSACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n
The city of Sacramento is looking for the community’s input as the search continues for a new police chief. <\/p>\n
Sacramento residents can share their public safety priorities, expectations for the police department and what leadership qualities they believe are most important for the new chief. <\/p>\n
“Selecting our next police chief is one of the most important decisions I will make as city manager, and I want our community to have a voice in that process,” Sacramento City Manager Maraskeshia Smith said. “We want to hear directly from residents and businesses about their public safety priorities, their expectations for the police department and the leadership qualities they believe are essential for Sacramento’s next chief.”<\/p>\n
Click here to take the survey. <\/a><\/p>\n Sacramento is looking for a new police chief after Kathy Lester retired from the position. She served four years in the role and had a 32-year career in law enforcement.<\/p>\n Zachary Bales was later sworn in as interim police chief while the city searches for a permanent replacement. <\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 The city of Sacramento is looking for the community’s input as the search continues for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2820,4249,7,195605,1409,27198,4962,130511,23615,7039,133047,116373,734,195604,195609,37987,195603,195607,195610,15635,195606,590,1492,195608,2934,121,123,122,9123,38840,11103,2734,116376],"class_list":["post-506015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-app","tag-businesses","tag-california","tag-chief-search","tag-city","tag-city-manager","tag-city-of-sacramento","tag-community-input","tag-download","tag-expectation","tag-interim-chief","tag-kathy-lester","tag-law-enforcement","tag-leadership-qualities","tag-leadership-quality","tag-maraskeshia-smith","tag-new-chief","tag-new-police-chief","tag-next-police-chief","tag-police-chief","tag-police-chief-search","tag-police-department","tag-public-safety","tag-public-safety-priority","tag-residents","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-police","tag-sacramento-resident","tag-survey","tag-top-california-story","tag-zachary-bales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506015","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=506015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}