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Saco ponders background for new police chiefin runningfor chief/jobBy KEN EHRLICH Staff WriterSACO — The field of candidates for Saco police chief has been narrowed to two men, City Administrator John S, Dexter saidFriday. Dexter said he considered about 30applicants.He said he will announce his choice within three weeks for the $14,000-a-yearBjst. City council approval is required of exter’s nominee.When Francis Amoroso resinned hisEosition as police chief here in April, he ad held the job nine months Alberick Martin has served as acting chief since that time.$155,000 asked for local innALBERICK MARTIN, who has served as acting police chief in Saco, since April when Francis Amoroso resigned. iFile photo)Officers favor in-house pickSACO — The debate is long-standing and heated and it touches the welfare of every Saco citizen.Where should Saco’s new police chief come from? Should he (it was learned no women applied come from Saco? What should the balance be between hts education and street experience?Those two questions — where he's from and how much he’s educated — seem to be the crux of the debate. And the two sides could be called the old guard and the new guardWhile City Administrator John S. Dexter denies there is an old guard in the department hostile to new ideas - “Frank (Amoroso, former Saco police chief who resigned in April) welded the department together” — the Journal Tribune has learned there are several police officers in the department here who would like to see(Continued on Page 8, Col. 2)• In-houseJOSEPH JORDAN, Boston's up-from-the-ranks police commissioner. (I PI photo)Hub officialupsizesBOSTON — Acting chief Alberick Martin has a lot in common with Boston Police Commissioner Joseph Jordan. Jordan was appointed after Robert DiGrazia resigned as Boston police commissioner. DiGrazia was well-educated, innovative and controversial, much the same as Amoroso Jordan was a local boy, without the education of DiGrazia but with a reputation for honesty and hard work, much the same as Martin Martin has applied for the chief's job, according to poiice department sources.The Journal Tribune put the “in-house, out-of-house question to Jordan in an interview Au$ 31.Journal Tribune: What do you feel the main considerations should be in looking for a police chief in Saco’Jordan: Basically, you have to look at what your major problems are Do you(Continued on Page 8, Col. S)• Jordan
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Biddeford Kennebunk Wells Journal Tribune
Biddeford, Maine, US
Sat, Sep 10, 1977
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