{"id":54497,"date":"2022-08-19T16:54:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T20:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=54497"},"modified":"2022-08-19T16:56:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T20:56:46","slug":"citing-personal-matters-fmpd-chief-derrick-diggs-temporarily-steps-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/08\/citing-personal-matters-fmpd-chief-derrick-diggs-temporarily-steps-aside\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing personal matters, FMPD Chief Derrick Diggs temporarily steps aside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derrick-Diggs-1024x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derrick-Diggs-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derrick-Diggs-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derrick-Diggs-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derrick-Diggs-1536x844.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Derrick-Diggs.jpg 1557w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Myers Police Chief Derrick Diggs announced he is temporarily stepping aside and appointing a new acting chief due to personal matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In a statement, Chief Diggs said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo quell any recent rumors, I will confirm that Tam handling some important personal matters at this time. During my brief absence from the department, I have assigned Deputy Chief Randall Pepitone as Acting Chief of Police. He temporarily steps in with decades of law enforcement experience and continues the vision and direction we have maintained for the last 6 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI look forward to returning soon to continue as your Chief of Police.\u201d&nbsp;\u2013 Chief Derrick Diggs<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deputy-Chief-Randall-Pepitone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54499\"\/><figcaption>Deputy Chief Randall Pepitone<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Before coming to FMPD, Pepitone retired from the Toledo Police Department in Ohio after 31 years \u2013 the same department Chief Diggs came from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pepitone received the Toledo Police Department\u2019s Blue Star Medal Award in 2013 after he was accidentally shot in the side of the head by a 92-year-old woman who mistook him for a burglary suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Myers Police Chief Derrick Diggs announced he is temporarily stepping aside and appointing a new acting chief due to personal matters. In a statement, Chief Diggs said: \u201cTo quell&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":54498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54497"}],"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=54497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54500,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54497\/revisions\/54500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}