{"id":13626,"date":"2014-11-03T15:09:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T20:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2014-11-03T15:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T20:09:37","slug":"west-grove-names-king-interim-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=13626","title":{"rendered":"West Grove names King interim police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em><strong>Retired State Trooper had been part-time New Garden officer<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/WestGrove-300x240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-972392\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/WestGrove-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"WestGrove\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>WEST GROVE \u2014 Following a brief search process, the Mayor and Borough Council announced that Michael P. King would be named interim Police Chief. \u00a0King will be sworn in on Wednesday, Nov. 5\u00a0at 7:30 pm in the Borough Municipal Building.<\/p>\n<p>King is an experienced Southern Chester County law enforcement official; he comes to the borough with a large amount of law enforcement experience.\u00a0 he retired from the Pennsylvania State Police in April of 2013 after 25 years of service; additionally, he is currently working as a part-time police officer with the New Garden Township Police Department.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Borough officials cited his &#8220;enthusiastic embracing of community policing philosophies that make him a good fit for the Borough of West Grove,&#8221; according to a statement issued by the township Monday. &#8220;We are excited about this change in direction for our police department; the Mayor and Council believe that our residents will be pleased with our selection.\u00a0 Chief King will begin administrative duties immediately; uniformed duties will commence sometime in December.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>King replaces Chief Errol Galloway who retired in September of 2014 after 26 plus years as police chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired State Trooper had been part-time New Garden officer WEST GROVE \u2014 Following a brief search process, the Mayor and Borough Council announced that Michael P. King would be named interim Police Chief. \u00a0King will be sworn in on Wednesday, Nov. 5\u00a0at 7:30 pm in the Borough Municipal Building. King is an experienced Southern Chester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4782,5445,1576],"class_list":["post-13626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-borough-police","tag-michael-p-king","tag-west-grove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13627,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions\/13627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}