08-21-2012 Mayor Buttigieg Announces Police Chief Search Process

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The Honorable Pete Buttigieg August 7, 2012 Page -2- development of a position announcement for the vacancy,setting forth a description of the city,the department,the characteristics of the candidate sought and the minimum qualifications. SPP staff will develop this material at no charge to the city. 4. Placement of the position announcement in web-based policing organization forums and (in shortened form) in select newspapers. Expense to the City for newspaper advertisements (such as in the South Bend Tribune,the Indianapolis newspaper and a Chicago newspaper. Advertisement will also be placed in Police Beat,a policing newsletter. The position will also be sent to the membership of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), International Association of Chief of Police (IACP), National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Officials (NOBLE) and the Hispanic American Police Command Officers Association (HAPCOA). S. For applications received, evaluating them against the minimum qualifications. No charge;will be done by SPP staff. 6. Requesting qualified candidates to answer four questions and evaluating those answers blindly (without names attached). Evaluations of the responses will be done by SPP staff members without charge and with a Selection Committee appointed by the Mayor and a few police professionals. For the police professionals,some might require an honorarium with total expense to the city overall of no more than$1,500. 7. Review of qualified candidates against their experience relative to the needs of South Bend; identification of the twelve or so most qualified candidates by the Selection Committee. Done by SPP staff; no charge and several chiefs of police 8. Review of the candidate answer scoring and resumes selecting 12 or so candidates for telephone interviews. Done by SPP staff and several chiefs of police and some members of the Selection Committee. Honorarium for Chiefs participating chiefs in the phone interviews will be no more than $2,000 total. Telephone charges will be about$100. 9. From these telephone interviews,the Selection Committee will select six or seven candidates to come to South Bend for in-person interviews. SPP will undertake an initial background check for each of these candidates to obtain a picture of past issues they may have had.