City Selects Interim Police Chief, Begins Recruitment For Permanent Selection
Bay City News Service
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NAPA (BCN)
Sylvia Moir was appointed interim chief of the Napa Police Department by a unanimous City Council vote Tuesday and will assume the role this coming Monday.
Moir, who was chief of the El Cerrito Police Department from 2010-16, will lead the department while the city recruits a permanent chief, a process expected to take six to seven months, city officials said. I am humbled and grateful to serve the City of Napa Police Department and the community while they search for a permanent chief to fill the role, Moir said. I am equally confident that my enthusiasm and experience in municipal policing will support and advance the service that the men and women of the Napa Police Department provide as they safeguard the community.
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.