Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom spent Tuesday and Wednesday on the gulf coast as he continues his effort to be hired by the City of Pensacola.
Winstrom is one of three finalists for the city’s open chief of police position. The other finalists are Brian Dugan, the retired chief of police for Tampa, Fla., and Erik Goss, the current acting deputy police chief in Pensacola.
On Tuesday, the three men took part in a public forum, answering questions from the community for roughly an hour.
Wednesday was reserved for interviews open to the public, which started just before 10 a.m.
Based in the far west of Florida’s panhandle, Pensacola sits on the Gulf Coast, near Mobile, Alabama. It has an estimated population of just under 54,000 people, according to the U.S. Census. Grand Rapids is estimated to have more than 200,000 residents…