12-13-2012 Three Finalists Announced for South Bend Chief of Police

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Once the submission deadline passed, Mayor Buttigieg formed an advisory committee to assist with the review of final candidates. The committee conducted phone interviews with a group of candidates before inviting a smaller number to attend in-person interviews. The committee ultimately recommended three finalists to the mayor. The advisory committee's membership included the following individuals: • Dr.Virginia Calvin, former chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College and former superintendent of the South Bend Community School Corporation. • General Joseph Carter, former adjutant general of the National Guard of Massachusetts, former chief of police of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Police, former Boston Police superintendent, and former president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. • John Collins, member of the South Bend Board of Public Safety and former head of Internal Affairs with the South Bend Police Department. • Kreg Gruber, president of Memorial Hospital in South Bend. • Brad Ellsworth, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and former sheriff of Vanderburgh County, Indiana. • Chuck Hurley, former and current interim chief of the South Bend Police Department. • Aaron Perri, executive director of Downtown South Bend (DTSB). • Rebecca Ruvalcaba, executive director of La Casa de Amistad Youth and Community Center. Elg, Marquis, and Teachman all have considerable, senior professional policing experience and each has served as a chief of police. Here is additional information on each finalist: Christopher Fig has been a chief of police or public safety director the last 17 years. He currently serves as the chief of police in West Monroe, Louisiana, where he has worked since 2004. From 2001 to 2003 he was the director of public safety in Van Buren Township, Michigan. He has also been the police director or chief in Carteret,New Jersey, and Medical Lake, Washington. He started his law enforcement career in 1985 as a state trooper with the New York State Police. Elg has two degrees from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York in addition to a master's degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. Elg has also served in the U.S. Coast Guard since 1989. Bruce Marquis has been a chief of police in two mid-size U.S. cities Hartford, Connecticut and most recently, Norfolk, Virginia. He's currently a law enforcement consultant for the U.S. Department of State and teaches leadership, management, and antiterrorism courses to mid and senior-level police officials in partner nations around the world. He was also a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1984 to 1994 in Houston. Marquis has a bachelor's degree, two master's degrees, and a Doctor of Education (Ed.D) in higher education administration. Marquis served in the U.S. Air Force from 1975 to 1983. Ronald Teachman is a 34 year veteran of the New Bedford(Mass.)Police Department, where he finished his time as chief of police from 2006 to 2011. At New Bedford,he held the ranks of patrolman, sergeant, lieutenant, and captain. He currently works for The Emergence Group, a