{"id":197112,"date":"2026-03-18T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197112\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:48:10","slug":"miami-beach-commissioners-decide-to-keep-police-chief-wayne-jones-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197112\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach commissioners decide to keep Police Chief Wayne Jones on the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 18, 2026 at 7:29 PM<\/p>\n<p>Miami Beach police chief postpones retirement <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 Miami Beach commissioners voted on Wednesday on an item that allows Police Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chiefwaynejones\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chiefwaynejones\/\">Wayne A. Jones<\/a> to postpone his retirement for two more years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Commissioners voted unanimously to extend his participation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/frs.fl.gov\/forms\/DROP-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/frs.fl.gov\/forms\/DROP-Guide.pdf\">deferred retirement option program<\/a>, a pension plan for public employees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jones, a 27-year Miami Beach Police Department veteran, was sworn in as chief on Sept. 1, 2023, after serving as patrol officer, detective, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, major, and deputy chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Watch the commission meeting<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More on Miami Beach<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 18, 2026 at 7:29 PM Miami Beach police chief postpones retirement MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Miami Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-197112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197112","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=197112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}