Palo Alto’s acting police chief is set to take on the role permanently starting next month, city officials announced.

Andrew Binder, who will become the city’s permanent chief pending an Aug. 8 vote by the City Council, has served with Palo Alto Police for more than seven years after 18 years with the San Jose Police Department and was named as acting chief in June.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.