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Coralville police report one vacancy and outline school, pantry and library partnerships
Summary
Chief Kyle Nicholson told the advisory board the department has one vacancy and asked for help recruiting diverse candidates; Officer Anthony Detwiler described partnerships with schools, the Coralville Food Pantry and the library’s outreach team as examples of community policing.
Chief Kyle Nicholson told the Coralville Citizens’ Community Policing Advisory Board on April 28 that the Coralville Police Department had one vacancy and asked the board to assist in recruiting diverse applicants. Nicholson described staffing as the department's primary personnel update and requested board support in outreach to prospective candidates.
Officer Anthony Detwiler, the department's community relations officer, described current community partnerships, naming local schools, the Coralville Food Pantry and the outreach team at the Coralville Public Library as collaborators in the department's engagement work. Detwiler framed these partnerships as part of the department's preventive and relational approach to community safety.
Chair Hotsenpiller proposed that the board use e-mail to coordinate support for upcoming community events and to help amplify recruitment and outreach efforts. Because state-level legislation (Senate File 311) may change the board's legal status, the chair said scheduling for the next meeting would be set by e-mail rather than fixed at this session.
No formal personnel hires, candidate slates, or recruitment outcomes were decided at the meeting; the board agreed to continue communications by e-mail about events and recruitment.
