{"id":19498,"date":"2011-01-10T09:26:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-interim-police-chief-painter-finalist-for-arizona-job\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T18:10:29","slug":"kent-interim-police-chief-painter-finalist-for-arizona-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-interim-police-chief-painter-finalist-for-arizona-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Interim Police Chief Painter finalist for Arizona job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Interim Police Chief Mike Painter is one of three finalists to be the new police chief in Peoria, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p>Peoria city officials plan to interview Painter and the other two finalists Jan. 10-11 and have a new chief by mid-to-late March, according to the Arizona Republic newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Current Peoria Police Chief Larry Ratcliff will retire Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The other finalists are Denton (Texas) Police Chief Roy Minter and Broken Arrow (Okla.,) Police Chief Todd Wuestewald. More than 60 people applied for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Painter was named interim chief last month in Kent after Steve Strachan left to be chief deputy of the King County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Painter, who has worked in Kent since 1980, was one of five finalists in November to be the Olympia Police Chief but did not get the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Interim Police Chief Mike Painter is one of three finalists to be the new police chief in Peoria, Ariz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19498"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}