The Knoxville Police Department will make position changes at the end of January. Officers Chris Rowland and Skyler Verros will be promoted to the position of Sergeant. Chief Aaron Fuller says this is part of a reorganization phase that should set the department up for success in the future.
“The department went into a reorganization phase where we created positions and promoted two officers to Sergeant. We also created a criminal investigator position. All of that will take effect at the end of January. Hopefully then we can solidify our reorganization and not have to do that for a while.”
The Knoxville Police Department recently promoted Officer Chris Rowland and Detective Skyler Verros to the rank of Sergeant. This is a position that fulfills more administrative duties, and according to Chief Aaron Fuller, will fill out the rank system and allow for more efficient work. He says that the two scored very highly on an objective assessment.
“They did an outside law enforcement interview panel, where they got very high marks. In fact, a lieutenant from a large sheriff’s office here in Iowa said that he had done multiple outside law enforcement panels, and said he’d put Officer Rowland and Detective Verros up against any of those and he’d be confident they’d win out. So that was very good news. The credit goes to Officer Rowland and Detective Verros, maybe a little bit to me, but mostly to Dan Losada, because he was the leader of the department for so long, bringing those guys up through the ranks. But they’re the ones who studied, prepared, and worked their b