Aldermen Sharply Criticize Police Chief Search Process
Three vote against appointing Ernest Brown as Darien's next police chief after they said they were denied input in the process.
Three aldermen denounced the process the city used to select Ernest Brown as Darien’s next police chief during Monday's city council meeting. At the outset of the search in June, Alderman Joerg Seifert said the aldermen were told that they would have the opportunity to interview the city’s top three candidates. But that didn’t happen. “It was basically placed on our laps that this would be the chief of police,” he said. The alderman had the opportunity to interview only Brown, Seifert said. Brown is currently deputy superintendent of the Chicago Police Department’s patrol division. Aldermen Sylvia McIvor and Joe Marchese joined Seifert in voting against Brown’s appointment because of the way the city conducted the search. More than 140 …
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10:08 am on Wednesday, September 28, 2011
From an earlier article regarding the selection process: “I have reflected on all recent options related to the police vacancy and recommended to the council that Darien conduct an open recruitment for a police chief from qualified candidates from both within and outside of our organization,” Weaver said in the statement. An outside search firm will not be used by the city to conduct the search. … more ›