{"id":311054,"date":"2026-06-17T22:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311054\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:59:42","slug":"matthew-castillo-sworn-in-as-new-doral-police-chief-promises-to-improve-public-safety-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311054\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Castillo sworn in as new Doral Police chief, promises to improve public safety &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DORAL, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; The City of Doral has sworn in a new police chief.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Castillo was sworn in on Wednesday alongside the newly minted Deputy Chief Jonathan Dweck.<\/p>\n<p>Castillo said he felt optimistic about the future of public safety in Doral under his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our job as leader of this community to improve the quality of life of all residents and that\u2019s what we are gonna do. Whether it\u2019s helping someone cross the street, change someone\u2019s tires, mentoring your kids, everything matters and I promise that\u2019s what we are gonna do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Castillo previously served as the chief of the Miami Springs Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Edwin Lopez, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/miami-police-chief-edwin-lopez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taken the position of City of Miami police chief<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DORAL, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; The City of Doral has sworn in a new police chief. Matthew Castillo was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-311054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311054","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=311054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}