{"id":40510,"date":"2013-07-24T12:54:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=40510"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:29:07","slug":"new-chp-commander-embraces-her-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/07\/24\/new-chp-commander-embraces-her-role\/","title":{"rendered":"New CHP Commander embraces her role"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prior to her career with the CHP, Jacobs served in the United States Air Force as a nuclear and conventional weapons specialist for fighter aircraft.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 Captain Gretchen Jacobs<\/strong>, a 24-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol, was promoted and assigned to the Antelope Valley CHP office as Commander on July 1, 2013.<\/p>\n

Jacobs is pleased to be working in the Antelope Valley and enthusiastically embraces her role of enhancing public safety and expanding public education about CHP programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI live locally, so I understand the needs of the community,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cI look forward to taking the mantle that was left by the previous captain, Captain Urrea, and building upon it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This starts with public education, Jacobs said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to expand the educational programs that we have, try to reach more people in the Antelope Valley, and bring everybody together so that they understand our role,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cWe would rather write less tickets, take less people to jail, take less accidents [reports].\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacobs also looks forward to forming meaningful and collaborative partnerships within the communities the CHP serves, and reaffirms the CHP\u2019s mission of \u201cSafety, Service and Security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacobs entered the CHP Academy in 1989.\u00a0 Upon completion of the six-month training program, she was assigned to Los Angeles.\u00a0 Throughout her career she has remained in Los Angeles County, serving the citizens of the state as an officer, sergeant, lieutenant, and now captain in the following Areas:\u00a0 Central Los Angeles Area, Altadena Area, Southern Division, South Los Angeles Area, Newhall Area, Castaic Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility, and the Antelope Valley Area.<\/p>\n

Prior to her career with the CHP, Jacobs served her country in the United States Air Force where she was assigned overseas in England, and stateside in South Carolina, as a nuclear and conventional weapons specialist for fighter aircraft.<\/p>\n

CHP\u2019s Antelope Valley Area includes the communities of Acton, Ana Verde Hills, Antelope Acres, Fairmont, Green Valley, Juniper Hills, Lake Los Angeles, Lake Elizabeth and Lake Hughes, Lancaster, Leona Valley, Littlerock, Palmdale, Quartz Hill, Roosevelt, Sun Village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LANCASTER \u2013 Captain Gretchen Jacobs, a 24-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol, was promoted and assigned to the Antelope Valley CHP office as Commander on July 1, 2013. Jacobs is pleased to be working in the Antelope Valley and enthusiastically embraces her role of enhancing public safety and expanding public education about CHP programs. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,10,1493,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}