{"id":864,"date":"2025-10-13T19:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/864\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:03:17","slug":"former-lubbock-police-chief-floyd-mitchell-resigns-from-oakland-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/864\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lubbock Police Chief Floyd Mitchell resigns from Oakland PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Former Lubbock Police Chief Floyd Mitchell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/oakland-police-chief-resigns\/3960455\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/oakland-police-chief-resigns\/3960455\/\">has submitted his resignation to the Oakland Police Department<\/a>, as reported by NBC Bay Area on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Mitchell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2023\/09\/12\/lubbock-police-chief-floyd-mitchell-resigns\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2023\/09\/12\/lubbock-police-chief-floyd-mitchell-resigns\/\">resigned from the Lubbock Police Department<\/a> back in September 2023 after criticism of the state of the department\u2019s 911 dispatch. In 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2023\/07\/12\/kcbd-investigates-lpd-police-chief-addresses-30000-abandoned-911-calls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 30,000 911 calls went unanswered<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2023\/07\/27\/kcbd-investigates-lpd-raises-dispatcher-minimum-staffing-following-30000-missed-calls-last-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">minimum staffing for dispatchers was raised to eight<\/a> in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2019\/10\/04\/floyd-mitchell-named-new-lubbock-police-chief\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell was appointed LPD Police Chief in 2019<\/a> following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2019\/04\/16\/report-chief-greg-stevens-sole-finalist-chief-police-rockport-tx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retirement of former Chief Greg Stephens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Before moving to Lubbock, Mitchell served as the Chief of Police with the Temple Police Department for four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mitchell became chief in Oakland in May 2024 and has submitted his resignation effective Dec. 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt has been an honor to serve the Oakland community, and I am grateful for the support I\u2019ve received from the residents,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cI\u2019m incredibly proud of the men and women of this Department and the collaborative working relationships forged with the community and business owners to reduce crime. My commitment over the weeks ahead is to help ensure a smooth transition and continue to keep Oakland safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Former Lubbock Police Chief Floyd Mitchell has submitted his resignation to the Oakland Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}