City Selects Interim Police Chief, Begins Recruitment For Permanent Selection
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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.
UpdatedThu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:29 pm PT
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Then-El Cerrito Police Chief Sylvia Moir speaks at the city s Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance in 2012. Moir was appointed interim chief of the Napa Police Department on Feb. 16, 2021. (Photo by Chris Treadway via Bay City News Service)
NAPA, CA The city of Napa has selected Sylvia Moir to serve as interim chief of police.
Napa City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint Moir as interim chief starting Monday while the city works to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Chief Robert Plummer. 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.
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The successor to Napaâs first minority police chief may be â at least in the near term â the first woman to lead city law enforcement.
Sylvia Macrae Moir, who spent four years as chief of police in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, Arizona before resigning in October, will become interim chief of Napa Police pending an approval vote Tuesday by the City Council. The candidacy of Moir, whose law enforcement career has spanned more than three decades, was disclosed in a council meeting agenda published Thursday morning.
If cleared by the council, the 55-year-old Moir would become Napaâs first-ever female police chief as well as the first openly gay person to hold the position, replacing Robert Plummer, the first Black leader of the force.