{"id":35492,"date":"2022-05-15T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=35492"},"modified":"2022-05-15T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T21:10:13","slug":"meet-cobb-countys-new-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=35492","title":{"rendered":"Meet Cobb County&#8217;s New Police Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Veteran <a href=\"\/tag\/Cobb-County\">Cobb County<\/a> police officer Stuart VanHoozer has been named the new police chief for Cobb County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the appointment of VanHoozer as the county\u2019s Chief of Police during its meeting Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VanHoozer takes the reins of the police department after a 32-year career with the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the vote, VanHoozer reflected on his start with the department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had no skills, I had nothing special, no military, no prior police experience and no education. Cobb County Police hired me and they put me in a little bitty thing called a beat and they gave me one little section of turf to protect for eight hours. And I fell in love with this job,\u201d VanHoozer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>County Manager Jackie McMorris said VanHoozer became a finalist for the job from more than 50 candidates and distinguished himself as the clear leader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very proud to say today we strongly believe we have chosen the most qualified, best-suited police chief for the county,\u201d McMorris said. \u201cWe believe he will take Cobb and our police department to 21st century policing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>County Chairwoman Lisa Cupid said she had become familiar with Chief VanHoozer during her time as a district commissioner. \u201cHe didn\u2019t look at crime as just crime,\u201d Cupid said. \u201cHe was the first to say this isn\u2019t a crime issue; this is a community development issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VanHoozer\u2019s appointment takes effect immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=7]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Cobb County police officer Stuart VanHoozer has been named the new police chief for Cobb County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5790],"tags":[8486,10213,9664,11507],"class_list":["post-35492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-cobb-county","tag-jackie-mcmorris","tag-lisa-cupid","tag-stuart-vanhoozer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}