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Select Board receives assessment of police chief finalists; schedules candidate interviews
Summary
An external assessment center evaluated four police chief candidates; the Select Board accepted the assessment report and tentatively scheduled public interviews so the board can combine assessment scores, resumes and interviews before making an appointment.
The Select Board on Sept. 29 heard results from an independent assessment center used to evaluate four finalists for the town's police chief job and agreed to proceed to public interviews. Consultant Russ (assessment consultant) told the board that assessors ran five exercises tailored to the town's size and needs, and that each candidate accumulated multiple scored observations to produce a written report for the appointing authority. The assessment covered a critical incident exercise, a citizen complaint exercise, a staff meeting exercise, an employee complaint exercise and a rapid-fire panel of questions. Russ said each exercise was rated by three trained…
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