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Veteran Oceanside lawman Fred Armijo named city s police chief City of Oceanside Fred Armijo, a 27-year veteran of the Oceanside Police Department, has been named the coastal city s 19th police chief, City Manager Deanna Lorson announced Thursday. and last updated 2021-03-11 21:57:27-05 OCEANSIDE (CNS) - Fred Armijo, a 27-year veteran of the Oceanside Police Department, has been named the coastal city s 19th police chief, City Manager Deanna Lorson announced Thursday. Armijo, a lifelong resident of Oceanside, has headed its police force in an interim capacity since December, when then-Chief Frank McCoy retired after 14 years in the post. As chief, Armijo will lead the department s 314 employees and manage its $66-million annual operating budget. ....
OCEANSIDE Oceanside police Capt. Fred Armijo, a member of the department since 1994, will be the city’s 19th police chief, City Manager Deanna Lorson announced Thursday. Armijo has been the interim police chief since his predecessor, Chief Frank McCoy, retired in December. McCoy was the longest-serving police chief in Oceanside’s 132-year history. “I am very honored to be selected as our next chief and am very humbled by the broad range of support I have received from our community,” Armijo said in a city news release. “I want our community to know that its Police Department is comprised of some very outstanding people who recognize we are living through challenging times and that we have a lot of work ahead of us. ....
OCEANSIDE An Oceanside City Council member’s call for “emergency action” to remove the growing homeless camps from city sidewalks failed Wednesday, after elected officials reviewed efforts already underway and agreed to stay the course. “A tent is not a home,” said Councilman Christopher Rodriguez, who asked for city staffers to return in 45 days with a plan to get unhoused people off the streets. “We must stop trying to make homelessness comfortable for people.” A Feb. 28 article in The San Diego Union-Tribune, later published in the Los Angeles Times, about an encampment of new tents on a side street near Oceanside Boulevard brought increased attention to the city’s homeless situation. A longtime homeless man, Rodney McGough, organized an unusual effort to keep the tent site clean and to get help for the occupants. ....
OCEANSIDE Five finalists have been selected to interview for the position of Oceanside police chief and one of them could be appointed by the end of March, according to an update from City Manager Deanna Lorson. Lorson initially considered promoting someone from within the Police Department to fill the position quickly after former Police Chief Frank McCoy announced his retirement last July. However, representatives of minority groups in the community asked for a more widespread recruitment to find somebody who would better reflect the city’s diversity. Lorson then slowed the process, surveyed the community’s thoughts on law enforcement, and hired an outside recruiter to conduct the search. ....
Print The Oceanside City Council voted 3-2 last week to delay opening the new El Corazon Aquatics Center while it considers whether to save money for its operation by closing the 50-year-old Brooks Street pool. Mayor Esther Sanchez voted no and said she was outraged at the idea, which would close a heavily used pool in a older, low-income, mostly Latino neighborhood to open the new aquatics center in a wealthier, less ethnically diverse part of the city. “I am really surprised that this would come up, that we would be taking from the poor to give to the rich,” Sanchez said during the discussion Wednesday. “That’s what it looks like . we are going to deny a huge resource to kids that cannot even get to the beach.” ....