{"id":48489,"date":"2021-04-28T17:35:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48489"},"modified":"2021-04-28T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:35:40","slug":"fort-myers-police-chief-derrick-diggs-applies-for-the-chief-position-in-columbus-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/04\/fort-myers-police-chief-derrick-diggs-applies-for-the-chief-position-in-columbus-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers Police Chief Derrick Diggs applies for the chief position in Columbus, Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Fort-Myers-Police-Chief-Derrick-Diggs-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48490\" width=\"182\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Fort-Myers-Police-Chief-Derrick-Diggs-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Fort-Myers-Police-Chief-Derrick-Diggs-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Fort-Myers-Police-Chief-Derrick-Diggs-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Fort-Myers-Police-Chief-Derrick-Diggs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><figcaption>Fort Myers Police Chief Derrick Diggs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Myers Police Chief Derrick Diggs has applied for the police chief position in Columbus Ohio, as his contract is set to end in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diggs came to Fort Myers after serving as the police chief in Toledo, Ohio, where he served 37 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diggs\u2019 contract was renewed by city council in August of 2019 for two years. Diggs received an annual salary of $182,105, a $42,000 bump in pay at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diggs was hired as Fort Myers police chief in 2016. At the time, he signed a three-year contract with an annual base pay of $140,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Myers Police Chief Derrick Diggs has applied for the police chief position in Columbus Ohio, as his contract is set to end in August. Diggs came to Fort Myers&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}