{"id":9233,"date":"2017-07-14T16:13:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2017-07-14T16:13:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:13:46","slug":"lee-county-port-authority-names-shawn-chamberlain-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/lee-county-port-authority-names-shawn-chamberlain-police-chief\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Port Authority Names Shawn Chamberlain Police Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9234\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chief-Chamberlain_07-13-17_edited-1-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Chamberlain_07-13-17_edited-1\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chief-Chamberlain_07-13-17_edited-1-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chief-Chamberlain_07-13-17_edited-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/>The Lee County Port Authority (LCPA) has named Shawn Chamberlain as chief of the Airport Police Department, responsible for public safety and security at Southwest Florida International Airport and Page Field in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain comes to LCPA with more than 19 years of law enforcement experience. Most recently, he served as the deputy chief of the Minneapolis\/St. Paul International Airport Police Department, where he started his airport career in 2001 as a detective and rose through the ranks, from sergeant, to lieutenant in patrol, aviation security and then the professional standards divisions. Prior to this, Chamberlain worked in U.S. Customs and Border Protection as a border patrol agent. He also served four years in the U.S. Navy, as well as time in the U.S. Navy Reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Airports Law Enforcement Agency Network and Airports Council International \u2013 North America.<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain attended staff and command school at the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety in Evanston, Illinois, and completed a Chief Executive Leadership course at the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville. He has a master\u2019s degree in criminal justice leadership\/human services from Concordia University and a bachelor\u2019s degree in law enforcement from Metro State University, both in St. Paul, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County Port Authority operates Southwest Florida International Airport and Page Field in Fort Myers. No ad valorem (property) taxes are used for the operation or improvement of either airport. For more information, please visit www.flylcpa.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee County Port Authority (LCPA) has named Shawn Chamberlain as chief of the Airport Police Department, responsible for public safety and security at Southwest Florida International Airport and Page Field in Fort Myers. Chamberlain comes to LCPA with more than 19 years of law enforcement experience. Most recently, he served as the deputy chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9235,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions\/9235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}