Politics & Government

Interviews For New Dover Police Chief Begin

The Dover Police Chief Search Committee began the first of several interviews Thursday night.

The first of interviews of candidates for Dover's new Police Chief by the Dover police chief Search Committee were Thursday night at the Dover Town House.

They were scheduled to conduct interviews with two candidates.

Before going into executive session, the committee briefly discussed how the interview process would take place.

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Committee member Tobe Deutschmann said, that the meetings were more about finding out about the personality of the applicant "than it is about answering as many questions as we can pepper the candidate with." 

Each interview was scheduled to be about an hour long.

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The committee said they would ask general predetermined questions to each candidate and then go into more specified questions about the candidates' background, resume, and experience.

It is uncertain, at this time, how many interviews will be conducted, as a whole, as the committee has not pinned-down the exact number of candidates yet.

The committee would not disclose the names of the applicants interviewing Thursday night, or go into what specific questions they would be asking.


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