{"id":186909,"date":"2026-03-11T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186909\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:13:21","slug":"orlando-police-chief-hosts-first-quarter-community-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186909\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Police Chief Hosts First Quarter Community Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando Police Chief Eric Smith is hosting his first quarter community meetings, with one meeting planned per city district.<\/p>\n<p>These meetings will provide important updates from OPD, highlight neighborhood crime trends, and give residents the opportunity to collaborate directly with the police department on ways to enhance community safety in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b4370751.smushcdn.com\/4370751\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OPDChiefEricSmith1.jpg?lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-250724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OPDChiefEricSmith1-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\"  \/><\/a>The dates, times, and locations around Orlando for the OPD community meetings will be:<\/p>\n<p>District 3<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, March 10, 2026<br \/>\n6:30pm<br \/>\nCollege Park Community Center, 2393 Elizabeth Avenue<\/p>\n<p>District 6<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, March 11, 2026<br \/>\n6:30pm<br \/>\nWestpointe Elementary School (Cafeteria), 7525 Westpointe Boulevard<\/p>\n<p>District 4<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March 17, 2026<br \/>\n6:30pm<br \/>\nBeardall Community Center, 800 Delaney Avenue<\/p>\n<p>District 1<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, March 18, 2026<br \/>\n6:30pm<br \/>\nVista Lakes Clubhouse, 8841 Lee Vista Boulevard<\/p>\n<p>District 2<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March 19, 2026<br \/>\n6:30pm<br \/>\nDover Shores Community Center, 1400 Gaston Foster Road<\/p>\n<p>District 5<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, March 25, 2026<br \/>\n6:30pm<br \/>\nHeart of West Lakes Wellness Center, 710 South Tampa Avenue<\/p>\n<p>The Orlando Police Department invites residents to come to the community meetings and take advantage of this opportunity to connect, ask questions, and stay informed.<\/p>\n<p>OPD recently <a href=\"https:\/\/westorlandonews.com\/orlando-police-report-significant-crime-reductions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported significant crime reductions<\/a>, crediting proactive policing and community support.\u00a0OPD said Orlando is seeing clear and measurable progress in public safety, with crime trending down across nearly every major category over the past three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Police Chief Eric Smith is hosting his first quarter community meetings, with one meeting planned per city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18747,502,30829,14945,1049,139,141,140,1120,8416],"class_list":["post-186909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-chief","tag-community","tag-eric-smith","tag-meetings","tag-opd","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police","tag-orlando-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}