{"id":30056,"date":"2022-03-25T10:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T10:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=30056"},"modified":"2022-03-25T10:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T10:19:26","slug":"mary-oconnor-to-be-sworn-in-as-tampas-new-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/mary-oconnor-to-be-sworn-in-as-tampas-new-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary O&#8217;Connor to be sworn in as Tampa&#8217;s new police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Mary O\u2019Connor will be sworn in Friday as chief of police of the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The ceremony will take place at the Julian B. Lane river center at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor, 51, served the Tampa Police Department for 22 years, rising to the rank of assistant chief before retiring in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"keypointsbox\" style=\"text-align: left; width: 95%;\">\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<h4 style=\"text-indent: 10px;\"><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/h4>\n<h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Mary O\u2019Connor will be sworn in Friday as chief of police of the Tampa Police\u00a0<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>She will become the department\u2019s 43rd police chief<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Tampa City Council voted 4-2 to confirm O\u2019Connor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h5>\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Since then, O\u2019Coonor has spent time extensively traveling the country, teaching and providing subject matter expertise and training to law enforcement and criminal justice executives.\u00a0 She\u2019s also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>While at TPD, Mary O\u2019Connor worked closely with a Tampa Police Chaplain in implementation and efficient running of a post-trauma training and retreat program to assist Tampa and other local police officers cope with symptoms of stress and strain associated with first responder careers.<\/p>\n<p>She was also instrumental in opening an after-school program, The RICH House, Resources in Community Hope, which served hundreds of children and helped connect adults with social services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2022\/02\/08\/new-tampa-police-chief-may-be-named-tuesday.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor Jane Castor chose O\u2019Connor for the post in February<\/a>, citing O\u2019Connor\u2019s experience and leadership within the police department.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor\u2019s appointment had been met with some pushback as she was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2022\/02\/14\/tampa-police-chief-mary-o-connor-addresses-arrest-from-27-years-ago\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested in 1995 and charged with battery on a law enforcement officer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa City Council voted 4-2 to confirm O\u2019Connor as the new chief March 17.<\/p>\n<p>She will become the department\u2019s 43rd police chief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2022\/03\/25\/mary-o-connor-to-be-sworn-in-as-tampa-s-new-police-chief\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Mary O\u2019Connor will be sworn in Friday as chief of police&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30058,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056\/revisions\/30058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}