After a virtually year-long search, the Honolulu Police Fee on Monday commissioners unanimously voted to nominate Arthur “Joe” Logan to be the brand new chief of the Honolulu Police Division.

Logan, a retired main basic with the navy who has been working as a felony investigator with the Hawaii Division of the Lawyer Common’s Workplace, was in the end chosen from a discipline of greater than 20 candidates initially thought-about for the place after former Chief Susan Ballard retired on June 1 amid criticism over her efficiency.

He was certainly one of 4 finalists for the job.

Logan’s resume consists of 41 years of navy expertise, twenty years of service with HPD, from 1982 till 2002, the place he made sergeant and labored as a detective on the theft element for the division’s Legal Investigation Division. He was the state’s adjutant basic and head of the Hawaii Emergency Administration Company when an worker mistakenly despatched out an alert {that a} missile was about to hit Hawaii. He retired from the Nationwide Guard a couple of months later and extra not too long ago has been working as an investigator with the state Lawyer Common’s Workplace.

The search had been largely performed by consulting agency PSI Companies LLC, which was contracted in December and whittled the sphere of candidates all the way down to 4 finalists — Logan, Scott Ebner, Mike Lambert, and Ben Moszkowicz — introduced earlier this month. Till then, the fee didn’t know the identities of any of the candidates.

One week after the finalists have been named, all answered questions from the general public throughout a televised discussion board on PBS Hawaii which aired final Thursday. Logan mentioned his ideas on the significance of officer wellness, regaining the belief of the general public and reappraising the necessities to hitch the police division in hopes to enhance recruitment numbers.

Commissioners interviewed the 4 finalists on Saturday and on Monday the 4 appeared at a fee assembly and answered questions once more. Commissioners voted on their two high candidates and narrowed the sphere to 2 — Logan and Scott Ebner, a retired lieutenant colonel with the New Jersey State Police.

Commissioners then mentioned their opinions on Logan and Ebner earlier than voting unanimously on Logan.

Though two commissioners initially expressed help for Ebner due to his expertise and familiarity with the most recent policing methods and instruments, nearly all of commissioners clearly favored Logan due to his lengthy expertise with Hawaii.

“Mr. Logan brings each data of Hawaii and robust government management to HPD,” Fee Chair Shannon Alivado stated in an announcement after the assembly. “We have been particularly impressed by his profitable recruitment efforts whereas at serving within the Nationwide Guard, and his dedication to selling officer wellness.”

Mayor Rick Blangiardi, who held a quick press convention after the announcement, stated he’s trying ahead to assembly with Logan.

“Chief Logan steps into this vital function at a vital time, and I supply my heat congratulations to each he and his household on being named the subsequent chief of the Honolulu Police Division,” Blangiardi stated in a press launch. “Constructing again public belief and restoring morale inside HPD should be high priorities, and I sit up for sitting down with Chief Logan as quickly as potential to debate his imaginative and prescient for this significant process.” 

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