{"id":323159,"date":"2026-11-07T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T14:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323159\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T14:55:16","slug":"the-city-of-reading-in-berks-county-hires-elias-vazquez-to-be-their-new-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323159\/","title":{"rendered":"The city of Reading in Berks County hires Elias Vazquez to be their new police chief."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1794063316_782_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, December 28, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Follow 6abc on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">READING, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The city of Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania has hired its next police chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Elias Vazquez will take over in the next month. He served for 26 years in the Tampa Police Department, rising through the ranks to be assistant chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Reading City Council formally approved Vazquez&#8217;s hiring Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Police Chief Richard Tornielli retired this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, December 28, 2023 Follow 6abc on Google READING, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; The city of Reading in Berks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[130970,349,2952,8669,736,128,130,129,1306,8321],"class_list":["post-323159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-130970","tag-berks-county","tag-elias-vazquez","tag-police-chief","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-police-department","tag-richard-tornielli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323159","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=323159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}