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Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll announces finalists for police chief Four finalists to meet with diverse community stakeholder group Wicked Local Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll has made public the names of four finalists vying to be the city s next police chief. The city kicked off the search for the next police chief last month. In early December, the Salem City Council OK’d a $30,000 request from Driscoll to fund what she has described as an intensive and robust assessment center for evaluating candidates. “As a diagnostic tool, it can evaluate the knowledge, skills, abilities and personal characteristics of candidates,” wrote Driscoll in a Dec. 3 cover letter to her funding request. “Candidates engage in a program of activities and simulations correlated to tasks that they would be expected to carry out as a successful chief.” ....