Committee selects Columbus police chief finalists
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) – The field of Columbus police chief candidates has narrowed to five.
The Commercial Dispatch reports the city’s chief of police search committee met Monday. The 14-member committee spent most of the meeting behind closed doors in executive session. Afterward, Mayor Robert Smith told The Dispatch the committee reviewed 26 applications for the job, ultimately cutting out 21.
Smith said interviews will be the next step in the process. City officials did not release the names of the five finalists after the meeting in order to first inform them of their selection. Smith said he expects interviews will happen sometime in mid-January.
Smith said he hopes to have a new police chief by early February.
The city advertised a $72,000 to $75,000 salary range for the position.
