Newburgh to add third police department leadership position

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NEWBURGH – Until a little over a year ago, the Newburgh City Police Department was run by a chief, but City Manager Todd Venning with support of the city council, added another layer of leadership with creation of a police commissioner post.

Now, Venning wants to hire a part-time deputy police chief, a position with which Mayor Torrance Harvey agrees.

“It’s a leadership role. The deputy chief would be over difference task forces, different roles and responsibilities that the chief and commissioner – the orders that they hand down,” he said.

The mayor is also leading the charge to increase the salaries of police officers to prevent them from being trained at the city’s expense and then “poached” by other higher paying departments in the region.




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