{"id":134935,"date":"2026-03-10T23:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134935\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:43:20","slug":"northern-berks-regional-pd-names-new-chief-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134935\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Berks Regional PD names new chief | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONTELAUNEE TWP., Pa., &#8211; A sergeant with the West Reading Police Department has retired and is now taking on a new role.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Holben is now chief of the Northern Berks Regional Police Department, which covers Maidencreek and Ontelaunee townships and Leesport.<\/p>\n<p>Holben briefly served as chief in West Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Berks Police Chief James Keiser led the department since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONTELAUNEE TWP., Pa., &#8211; A sergeant with the West Reading Police Department has retired and is now taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[62301,62303,1378,28,128,130,129,62302,31957],"class_list":["post-134935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-james-keiser","tag-northern-berks-regional-police-department","tag-ontelaunee-township","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-wayne-holben","tag-west-reading-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}