{"id":20658,"date":"2016-08-02T07:22:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T11:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=20658"},"modified":"2016-08-02T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T11:22:36","slug":"kennett-sq-says-farewell-to-zunino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=20658","title":{"rendered":"Kennett Sq. says farewell to Zunino"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-time borough police chief to retire<\/em><\/h2>\n

By Kelly O’Hara<\/strong>, Staff Writer, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Sunino\"

Kennett Square Police Chief Edward Zunino is retiring \u2014 Borough Council voted to accept his letter or retirement, Monday night.<\/p><\/div>\n

KENNETT \u2014 The Kennett Square Borough Council voted to accept the letter of retirement from long-time\u00a0borough Police Chief Edward Zunino at its meeting on Monday\u00a0night.<\/p>\n

Chief Zunino served the borough for more than\u00a040 years. He was born and raised in Kennett Square and began his career in 1974 on the Auxiliary Police. He became a part time sworn officer in 1975 and then a full-time officer in 1976. He has served as a patrolmen, detective, lieutenant and ultimately, Chief of Police.<\/p>\n

Mayor Matthew Fetick read a letter of appreciation at the meeting.\u00a0\u00a0 Of Zunino\u2019s service, the mayor says \u201cThroughout his career, he took the lead in investigating homicides, burglaries, gang violence and more. With his significant relationships in the Community he was able to build trust and solve crimes that may have otherwise gone unsolved. He is well known and respected by residents and business owners alike.\u201d Fetick\u2019s letter said.<\/p>\n

The council members thanked the chief for his exemplary service and acknowledged that these \u201cwere big shoes to fill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Borough resident John Thomas, who \u00a0said he has known Zunino and his wife for many years, said \u201cthey are good, honest people and I hope that they can now enjoy retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Fetick also said that he hopes that Zunino and his wife \u201ccan now get a good night\u2019s sleep and relax knowing that the chief is out of harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The council will be forming a search committee to look for the next chief. The committee is expected to begin the search in the fall. Council member Wayne Braffman believes that the vote for the new chief will be the single most important vote that they will make during their time as council members and wants to make sure they get it right. He suggested that the council determine the criteria for candidate selection in advance of the start of starting process to ensure that the council is unanimous in their priorities and ultimately, their vote when the new Chief is selected.<\/p>\n

Council member LaToya Myers suggested that their be a representative from the Advisory Committee for Latino Affairs be a part of the selection committee.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, current officer Bill Holdsworth has been promoted to Lieutenant and will be the temporary officer in charge until a replacement chief is hired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long-time borough police chief to retire By Kelly O’Hara, Staff Writer, The Times KENNETT \u2014 The Kennett Square Borough Council voted to accept the letter of retirement from long-time\u00a0borough Police Chief Edward Zunino at its meeting on Monday\u00a0night. Chief Zunino served the borough for more than\u00a040 years. He was born and raised in Kennett Square […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7770,7771,6518,16,92],"class_list":["post-20658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chief-retirement","tag-edward-zunino","tag-featured","tag-kennett-square","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658","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=20658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20659,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions\/20659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}