
{"id":9559,"date":"2010-03-25T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=9559"},"modified":"2010-03-25T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:47:34","slug":"police-chief-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/03\/25\/police-chief-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chief resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsborough Police Chief Clarence Birkhead, who recently filed to run in the Democratic primary for Orange County sheriff, announced this week that he will step down on April 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As you know, I am a candidate for sheriff of Orange County,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Birkhead stated in his resignation letter. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I feel that I should devote all of my energies to my campaign. Under the circumstances, I feel it is best for the Town of Hillsborough and my campaign to step down.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough Town Manager Eric Peterson said he hopes to name an interim chief by early next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are all thankful for the many improvements Chief Birkhead has made over the past five years to improve the quality of policing that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been provided to Hillsborough\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s citizens,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Peterson said.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing a department head typically takes about six months.<br \/>\nBirkhead faces incumbent Lindy Pendergrass in the May 4 primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsborough Police Chief Clarence Birkhead, who recently filed to run in the Democratic primary for Orange County sheriff, announced this week that he will step down on April 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9560,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions\/9560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}