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Chief Hedlund outlines internal promotion to fill investigator vacancy; council to vote next meeting
Summary
Police Chief Hedlund said a July retirement opened an investigations position; the department selected an internal candidate through a promotion process and will ask the council to approve a lieutenant promotion and fill the investigator vacancy at the next meeting.
Police Chief Hedlund told the council that a retirement in July created an opening in the department’s investigations unit and that the department used an internal promotion process to identify a preferred candidate for a combined investigations/administration role.
Hedlund said the department had three applicants and selected an internal sergeant (identified in the interview process as Sergeant Shraga and referenced elsewhere in the discussion as Sergeant Isall Shaw); the promoted officer currently serves part time as the drug-task-force commander and part time as an investigator, and the change would create a separate investigator vacancy that the department plans to fill. "We did a promotion process, had 3 applicants ... Sergeant Shraga got to move forward into this position," Hedlund said.
Council members asked whether the selection process was internal (it was), whether external candidates had been considered (the chief said the lieutenant position was not opened to external candidates), and who would assume task-force commander duties or if that would be reappointed by the task-force board. Hedlund said the task-force board will decide commander succession and that the next board meeting is Sept. 18; he identified Nick Anderson as one candidate who expressed interest.
Next steps: Hedlund said the council will be asked to approve the lieutenant promotion and the request to fill the investigator position at the next council meeting.
