UC Community Encouraged to Meet Finalists for Police Chief, Assistant Police Chief Positions

A national search is underway to find the University of Cincinnati's next chief of police and assistant chief of police. During the past several weeks, an 11-member search committee has reviewed 65 applications and conducted ten video conference interviews. The candidate pool has been narrowed down to five finalists - three for the chief position and two for the assistant chief position.

A series of on-campus open forums have been scheduled, one for each candidate, to provide all faculty, staff and students an opportunity to meet the candidates and ask questions. A webpage has also been set-up to allow members of the UC community to share their thoughts about each candidate with the search committee. Visit

www.uc.edu/publicsafety

  and click on the “Leadership Search” button.

Open Forum Sessions:


Monday, May 23:

Candidate: Denson Chatfield

Position: Police Chief

Time: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  

Location: Teachers College Room 407

Candidate: John Pate

Position: Assistant Police Chief

Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Location: College of Law Room 118

Tuesday, May 24:

Candidate: Maris Herold

Position: Assistant Police Chief

Time: 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Location: Tangeman University Center, Room 400C

Candidate: Anthony Carter

Position: Police Chief

Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Location: Tangeman University Center, Room 417 ABC

Wednesday, May 25:

Candidate: Craig Stone

Position: Police Chief

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Location: College of Law, Room 114

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