{"id":21143,"date":"2012-04-02T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/king-county-council-appoints-ex-kent-police-chief-strachan-as-sheriff\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:02:13","slug":"king-county-council-appoints-ex-kent-police-chief-strachan-as-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-council-appoints-ex-kent-police-chief-strachan-as-sheriff\/","title":{"rendered":"King County Council appoints ex-Kent Police Chief Strachan as Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Metropolitan King County Council Monday appointed former Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan to succeed Sue Rahr as King County Sheriff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Strachan, who was Rahr\u2019s Chief Deputy since January 2011, became interim Sheriff when Rahr left the <a title=\"sheriff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/safety\/sheriff.aspx\" target=\"_self\">Sheriff\u2019s office<\/a> on March 31 to become director of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission in Burien. Rahr had appointed Strachan to the position.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Under the King County Charter, the Council is responsible for appointing a new Sheriff until the vacancy has been filled at the next general election in November.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cWith over 25 years of law enforcement and public service experience, Chief Deputy Strachan is well-equipped to lead the men and women of our Sheriff\u2019s Office while meeting the needs our communities, particularly confronting the issue of youth and gang violence,\u201d said Councilmember Julia Patterson, prime sponsor of the motion, who represents District 5 that covers part of Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Strachan, 47, became Chief Deputy of the King County Sheriff\u2019s Office in 2011 after serving nearly five years as <a title=\"steve\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/112401514.html\" target=\"_self\">Kent\u2019s Police Chief<\/a>. He previously was Chief of Police in Lakeville, Minn., where he had been an administrative sergeant, detective, school resources officer, SWAT team leader, DARE officer and patrol officer. He also worked as a Jail Deputy for the Sheriff\u2019s Office in Carver County, Minn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cI am pleased to hear our newly appointed Sheriff Steve Strachan prioritize the four principles of an effective, respectful, accountable and transparent Sheriff\u2019s Office,\u201d said Councilmember Larry Phillips. \u201cWith those principles and with his commitment to support meaningful independent oversight through the Office of Law Enforcement Oversight, Sheriff Strachan will be starting off on the right foot with the people of King County.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Strachan must file by mid-May to run for Sheriff to complete Rahr&#8217;s four-year term that expires the end of 2013. Strachan plans to run for the position.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan King County Council Monday appointed former Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan to succeed Sue Rahr as King County Sheriff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":21144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21143"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21143"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}