Sylvia Macrae Moir, a former chief of police in Arizona and California, will lead Napa Police while the city looks for the next permanent head of local law enforcement.
The City Council unanimously approved the 55-year-old Moir as acting police chief at its meeting late Tuesday afternoon. Moir, the first woman and first openly gay person selected for the role in Napa, will replace Robert Plummer, who was the cityâs first Black police chief and retired Jan. 1 after a 2 ½-year tenure.
Although police chiefs normally are chosen by the city manager, California law pushed Moirâs temporary appointment into council hands because she draws a pension from her time leading El Cerrito Police, where she spent six years before her 2016 hiring as police chief in Tempe, Arizona, a Phoenix suburb of 187,000 people. Moir resigned her Tempe post in October.