The Honolulu Police Commission is finally moving forward in its search to replace former chief Joe Logan, who announced his retirement in June after about three years in the job.
The city’s procurement office inked a deal on Dec. 31 with the California consulting firm Public Sector Search & Consulting Inc. for $121,900. The company, which specializes in law enforcement executive hiring, has agreed to come up with three to five candidates for the seven-member commission to choose from.
And it looks like it will still be May or June before a new permanent chief is on board, based on a timeline included in the search firm’s proposal and contract, despite public promises by the city and the commission that this time it wouldn’t take so long to find a new chief. It was nearly a year between when former chief Susan Ballard quit and Logan was in place, mainly because the city’s procurement process takes that long if it needs to bring on an outside search firm to do the heavy lifting…