Latest Oakland police chief is out after two days
Yet another Oakland police chief is being replaced — the third in nine days — amid the fallout from a sex scandal that has descended on the Police Department.
Acting Police Chief Paul Figueroa is stepping down from the job for unspecified reasons, sources close to City Hall said Friday evening. Figueroa had taken the job just two days ago, after Mayor Libby Schaaf abruptly removed interim Police Chief Ben Fairow for reasons she declined to explain.
Fairow returned to his former job at the BART Police Department, where he had been deputy chief until Schaaf picked him June 9 as the interim replacement for Chief Sean Whent. Schaaf said Whent was resigning for personal reasons, but sources said he had been forced out because of a scandal in which several Oakland police officers are suspected of being involved with a teenage sex worker.
BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey said Fairow had admitted to having an extramarital affair with a consenting adult more than a decade ago, when he worked at the Oakland Police Department.
There was no immediate word on who will replace Figueroa, but early indications are that the department will be overseen by City Administrator Sabrina Landreth. It’s believed Figueroa will stay with the Police Department, where he had been assistant chief.
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