The Los Angeles City Council Friday continued a vote for one week to consider the reappointment of Erroll Southers to the Board of Police Commissioners for a second term after his first ended June 30.
Councilman John Lee requested the vote be rescheduled for the following Friday, which Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson approved.
In August, Mayor Karen Bass nominated Southers to serve on the board for another term, which would end on June 2030. Southers previously served as the president of the commission — the five-member panel that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department.
Southers is USC’s associate vice president of safety and risk assurance, overseeing the departments of public safety, environmental health and safety, as well as fire safety and emergency planning. He is also professor of the practice in national and homeland security at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Southers was deputy director for critical infrastructure of the California Office of Homeland Security, assistant chief of homeland security and intelligence with the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department, assistant vice president for visitor services and chief of protective services for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an FBI special agent and a Santa Monica Police Department officer.
He received a doctorate of policy, planning and development from USC.
Bass first appointed him to the commission in 2023.