Kearny pulls out of joint chief selection; Hayden and Mammoth to hire shared chief
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During a special Kearny Town Council meeting on Friday, March 10, the Kearny Town Council voted to no longer participate in the selection process for a shared Chief of Police with the towns of Hayden, Winkelman and Mammoth. The four communities had been collaborating for almost two years and were in a final selection process for hiring the joint chief of police.
Hayden, Mammoth and Kearny had all approved a joint contract in a previous meeting. Kearny council voted to hire a chief that would just serve the Town of Kearny.
The communities had been discussing the possibility of developing a Police Services District that would have created one police department for all four communities. Hayden Mayor Bobby Smith explained that those discussions are no longer in the works. It does not appear that a police district would be feasible should one of the communities not want to participate.
