By Larry Barszewski
An advisory committee of local police officials will interview six finalists for Ocean Ridge’s police chief position June 7 and then give its feedback to Town Manager Lynne Ladner.
The Police Chief Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Town Hall to interview the finalists and then reconvene at 6:30 p.m. for members to present their thoughts and recommendations to Ladner. The public will not be allowed to comment during the interviews, but will be given a chance to speak at the start of the evening session.
The interviews are expected to last about an hour each. The committee is scheduled to take a lunch break and resume the interviews at 1:30 p.m.
The night session is scheduled to last until 9 p.m.
Ladner created the advisory committee to assist her in the search. The members are Tequesta Police Chief Gus Medina, Highland Beach Police Lt. Michael Oh, Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office Lt. Ryan Mugridge, and former Ocean Ridge Town Manager Tracey Stevens, who is now Haverhill’s town administrator.
Twelve people applied for the police chief position, which opened in February when Chief Richard Jones announced he was leaving to head the Police Department in Gulf Stream.
The finalists to be interviewed are: Ja’vion Brown Sr., deputy sheriff with the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office; John Donadio, former police chief of Sewall’s Point; Eric Herold, a supervisory federal air marshal; Albert Iovino, a captain with the Indian River Shores Department of Public Safety; Tom Levins, interim commander with the Clewiston Police Department, and Scott McClure, Ocean Ridge’s acting police chief.
Ladner plans to announce her selection following — but not before 10:30 a.m. — the town’s 9 a.m. Planning and Zoning Board meeting on June 20.
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