Chapel Hill officials are taking a look within as part of the hiring process for a new police chief to replace Chief Brian Curran, who recently announced his retirement.
Town Manager Roger Stancil suggested the town review the application of Assistant Chief Chris Blue, who was ranked the number-two candidate in the last job search in 2007.
“A rigorous set of experiences and expectations has been established to assess Assistant Chief Blue’s skills in real time with real issues,†Stancil said. “As with other assessment processes, this one will focus on the characteristics that have been identified that we need in a chief and the extent to which his behavior fulfills those characteristics. The basic characteristics we are looking for were defined in an extensive public input process in 2007 when Chief Gregg Jarvies retired.â€