{"id":29716,"date":"2024-06-19T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T14:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=29716"},"modified":"2024-06-19T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T14:08:23","slug":"county-sheriff-announces-new-hires-promotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=29716","title":{"rendered":"County Sheriff announces new hires, promotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19633\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19633\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19633\" src=\"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Fernandez-Chimal-Rodrigues-Pinda-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"203\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chester County Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced new hires and a promotion this week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chester County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced the hiring of five new deputies and the promotion of a Deputy to Corporal<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The office welcomes Deputy Nicholas Fernandez (recipient of the Police Academy\u2019s Physical Conditioning Award), Deputy Angel Chimal Rodrigues (recipient of the Police Academy\u2019s Academic Achievement Award) and Deputy Ernesto Pinda, who have completed their training at the Delaware County Community College\u2019s Police Academy and have demonstrated exceptional skills and dedication to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, the office\u00a0 announced the hiring of Deputy Brett Popiny, who joins us from Telford Borough Police Department with over a decade of experience in law enforcement and Kiri Burgos, who has been with the agency for two years, being promoted from Security Operator to Deputy. Kelly McGonigal, who has been with the office for four years, has been promoted from Deputy to Corporal. Their promotions reflect their dedication and contributions to the mission and vision of the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the new administration took office, it has hired 20 new staff members. Furthermore, the office has implemented an aggressive recruitment and retention plan to continue attracting the best deputies in the county, as well as expanding its digital presence to recruit via social media, ensuring it continues to reach a broader and more diverse pool of candidates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Added Sheriff Kevin Dykes, \u201cIn spite of the challenges we face both locally and nationally with law enforcement hiring, I am extremely proud of our agency\u2019s commitment to staffing the best deputies in Chester County. I am delighted to welcome our new deputies and look forward to seeing the positive impact they will make in ensuring public safety throughout the county.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chester County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced the hiring of five new deputies and the promotion of a Deputy to Corporal The office welcomes Deputy Nicholas Fernandez (recipient of the Police Academy\u2019s Physical Conditioning Award), Deputy Angel Chimal Rodrigues (recipient of the Police Academy\u2019s Academic Achievement Award) and Deputy Ernesto Pinda, who have completed their training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[237,3162,5278,5730],"class_list":["post-29716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county-sheriffs-office","tag-featured","tag-new-hires","tag-promotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29717,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716\/revisions\/29717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}