{"id":192192,"date":"2026-05-14T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192192\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:00:13","slug":"robeson-township-welcomes-new-police-chief-southern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192192\/","title":{"rendered":"Robeson Township welcomes new police chief | Southern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROBESON TWP., Pa. \u2013 Robeson Township is welcoming its new police chief.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Joseph Brown began his new role this week.<\/p>\n<p>He has an extensive policing background, spending 28 years with the West Reading Police Department before becoming a detective with the Berks County District Attorney\u2019s Office. He most recently served as the regional security investigator for Tower Health.<\/p>\n<p>The Township says Brown is also deeply involved in the community and is the founder and president of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/berksheroes.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Berks County Police Heroes Fund<\/a> that helps the families of officers injured or killed in the line of duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROBESON TWP., Pa. \u2013 Robeson Township is welcoming its new police chief. Chief Joseph Brown began his new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,85565,128,130,129,12748,18276,31957],"class_list":["post-192192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-joseph-brown","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-robeson-township","tag-tower-health","tag-west-reading-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192192","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=192192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}