{"id":5066,"date":"2026-09-11T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/riverview-police-chief-says-department-will-return\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T18:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:40:16","slug":"riverview-police-chief-says-department-will-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/riverview-police-chief-says-department-will-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverview Police Chief Says Department Will Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/S0GQoBwxihc\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Riverview police chief says department isn\u2019t going away, calls staffing cuts \u2018temporary furlough\u2019\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S0GQoBwxihc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> RIVERVIEW, MO \u2013 September 11, 2026 (STL.News) Riverview Police \u2013 The Riverview Police Department is not permanently dissolving, according to its police chief, who says the North St. Louis County municipality is instead temporarily furloughing police employees while city officials restructure the city\u2019s finances. The clarification from Riverview Interim Police Chief Brandin Neil substantially changes the picture that emerged Thursday night and continued to circulate Friday, when multiple reports described the Riverview Police Department as being dissolved or disbanded. St. Louis County Police will handle emergency calls in Riverview during the interruption in municipal police operations, but Neil<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/riverview-police-chief-says-department-will-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIVERVIEW, MO \u2013 September 11, 2026 (STL.News) Riverview Police \u2013 The Riverview Police Department is not permanently dissolving, according to its police chief, who says the North St. Louis County municipality is instead temporarily furloughing police employees while city officials&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5068,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions\/5068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}