Richmond Assistant Police Chief Timothy Simmons will take over as the department’s new chief next month following the current chief’s pending retirement, city officials confirmed.

Police Chief Bisa French announced in September that she would be retiring effective Jan. 16 after first joining the department in 1998 and becoming chief in 2020.

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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.