{"id":5933,"date":"2009-07-24T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2009-07-24T09:19:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:19:05","slug":"carlsbad-police-chief-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5933","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Police Chief Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tom-zoll.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tom-zoll.jpg','popup','width=210,height=173,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tom-zoll-tm.jpg\" height=\"164\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Tom-Zoll\" \/><\/a><strong>Thomas Zoll<\/strong>, Carlsbad&#8217;s police chief who spent a while in March and April of 2009 on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4959\" target=\"_blank\">administrative leave<\/a><\/strong>, has announced that he is retiring, according to a story in the <strong>North County Times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zoll, 58, cited no specific reason for his departure in an interview, saying he has been in law enforcement for 37 years, and has been considering retirement for some time. . . &#8220;You know when it&#8217;s time, and it&#8217;s time,&#8221; he said. . . However, in an e-mail sent to members of the police department Wednesday, Zoll cited the stress from recent departmental troubles and a series of family problems as the main factors in his decision. The letter talked about the deaths of his father and mother-in-law in 2008. . . &#8220;It is also no secret that this year has been challenging at best,&#8221; Zoll wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zoll will reportedly continue in his position until his replacement is found. Zoll was paid $170k a year, so we&#8217;re guessing it won&#8217;t be that difficult to find qualified help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountytimes.com\/articles\/2009\/07\/23\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/z7490420da7ff411d882575fc007d9a52.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Zoll, Carlsbad&#8217;s police chief who spent a while in March and April of 2009 on administrative leave, has announced that he is retiring, according to a story in the North County Times. Zoll, 58, cited no specific reason for his departure in an interview, saying he has been in law enforcement for 37 years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5934,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions\/5934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}