Mayor Karen Bass is expected to announce the new chief of the Los Angeles Police Department at a news conference Friday.
There are three finalists for chief, but it is not known if Bass will choose from those three candidates. She has a news conference scheduled at 9 a.m. Friday.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting former Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell will be selected as the next LAPD chief.
Najee Ali, the Director of Project Islamic Hope, released a statement Friday saying Bass was going to announce McDonnell is the next LAPD chief.
The Los Angeles Police Commission submitted three candidates for police chief to Bass in August, according to reports in the L.A. Times. The names of those candidates were not released at that time.
However, three candidate names surfaced for chief. They were McDonnell, Deputy Chief Emada Tingirides and former Assistant Chief Robert “Bobby” Arcos, who has been working with District Attorney George Gascon’s office as head of investigations.
McDonnell was an assistant chief at LAPD prior to serving as sheriff.
Bass said she was going to make a decision on the new chief by the end of September. The applicants for chief who were not selected as finalists were notified more than a week ago, according to media reports.
An executive recruiting firm was hired by City Hall to search for candidates months ago. Former Chief Michel Moore retired from the LAPD in February.
The Police Commission announced in August at the end of a special meeting it submitted the names of three finalists to the mayor’s office.
Commission President Erroll Southers said the board had “discharged its duties as set forth in the city charter … and will be forwarding a list of recommended candidates to the mayor,” according to a recording of the meeting.
Ali said in a statement released Friday, “Sheriff Jim McDonnell is no stranger to civil rights leaders.”
“Many of us have worked with him over the last three decades, both during his time as Assistant Chief of the LAPD and when he was elected as the Los Angeles County Sheriff.
“We look forward to working with him again to improve public safety and continue the effort of police reform within the Los Angeles Police Department.” Ali said.