{"id":81816,"date":"2019-11-26T17:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=81816"},"modified":"2019-11-26T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:59:04","slug":"city-of-oxford-mississippi-announces-jeff-mccutchen-will-be-sworn-in-as-police-chief-in-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/city-of-oxford-mississippi-announces-jeff-mccutchen-will-be-sworn-in-as-police-chief-in-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Oxford, Mississippi Announces Jeff McCutchen Will Be Sworn in as Police Chief in January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>City of Oxford Mayor<\/strong> and <strong>Board of Aldermen<\/strong> announced today plans to make<strong> Interim Chief<\/strong> <strong>Jeff McCutchen<\/strong> the next <strong>Chief of the Oxford Police Department<\/strong> in January of 2020 when Chief <strong>Joey East<\/strong> is sworn in as <strong>Lafayette County<\/strong> <strong>Sheriff<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInterim Chief McCutchen has basically had a ten month job interview,\u201d said Mayor <strong>Robyn Tannehill<\/strong>. \u201cI am speaking for the Board when I say that we could not be more proud of how Interim Chief McCutchen has led the department and represented our community through some extremely tough situations. We have complete confidence in his ability to lead the Oxford Police Department into the future and continue to serve our community with wisdom and compassion.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Jeff-McCutchen.jpg?resize=622%2C414\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Jeff-McCutchen.jpg?w=622&amp;ssl=1 622w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Jeff-McCutchen.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><figcaption> Jeff McCutchen <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Tannehill stated, \u201cChief Joey East\u2019s service to the Oxford Police Department and to our community over the past 24 years has been incredible. Chief East has led by example and leaves the department better than he found it. Chief East\u2019s focus on community policing, establishing a downtown district unit, incorporating a mounted patrol unit and most recently securing CALEA certification for the Oxford Police Department has set the department on a path for success and service. We are forever indebted to Chief East for his service to all of us.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a Board, we are so proud of Joey for not only following his heart, but also his Dad\u2019s foot steps. We know he will continue to lead and serve our community well in his new role as Sheriff. The public is invited to join us at the Oxford Conference Center on Monday, December 30th from 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm to celebrate and appreciate him for his service to the Oxford community.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019-05-21-Interim-Chief-Jeff-McCutchen.jpg?resize=620%2C349\" alt=\"Interim Chief Jeff McCutchen of Oxford, Mississippi. Photograph by Newt Rayburn - The Local Voice.\" class=\"wp-image-81817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019-05-21-Interim-Chief-Jeff-McCutchen.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019-05-21-Interim-Chief-Jeff-McCutchen.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption>Interim Chief Jeff McCutchen of Oxford, Mississippi. Photograph by Newt Rayburn &#8211; The Local Voice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Oxford Mayor and Board of Aldermen announced today plans to make Interim Chief Jeff McCutchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":81817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[38,13731,4379,12729,1097,256,1399,5,1448,8744],"class_list":["post-81816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-government","tag-board-of-aldermen","tag-chief-of-police","tag-city-of-oxford","tag-jeff-mccutchen","tag-joey-east","tag-lafayette-county","tag-mayor","tag-mississippi","tag-robyn-tannehill","tag-sheriff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019-05-21-Interim-Chief-Jeff-McCutchen.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}