BATON ROUGE, La. — Five candidates for the next Baton Rouge Chief of Police were selected on Thursday to move on to the final round of interviews; their last step is to sit with Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome.
The five candidates are former Lafayette Police Chief Thomas Glover, BRPD Deputy Chief Myron Daniels, BRPD Commander of Training Services Thomas Morse Jr., BRPD Training Academy Director Sharon Douglas and BRPD Capt. David Wallace.
All five were hand-picked by the Police Chief Search Committee, which is a body of 10 members who are appointed by Broome. They were tasked with interviewing 21 police chief candidates.
Walt Green, a committee member and former U.S. attorney said, "they were thinking about the 21st-century policing", he told our partners at The Advocate. Green said the candidates offered new ideas for the police department.
Daniels currently serves as the second-in-command to Chief Murphy Paul and joined BRPD in 1998. He applied for police chief twice, once in 2013 and another in 2017. Douglas is a 19-year veteran in the department and applied for the position in 2017.
Morse has been with the department for 20 years, while Wallace has the most years of experience with BRPD, serving 30 years.
Glover is the only candidate coming from another department. He was terminated from Lafayette's Police Department, under "murky circumstances", according to our partners at The Advocate. Glover is suing the department for wrongful termination.
The current BRPD Chief Murphy Paul said he will remain as chief until a successor is named, he told the Advocate on Wednesday.
Broome said she plans on selecting a candidate for the role soon.
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