Phoenix has unveiled a trio of finalists to become permanent police chief.
The department has been under interim leadership since 2022.
The list includes longtime local lawman Matt Giordano, current executive director of the state oversight board of police officers. Giordano retired from the Phoenix Police Department as a commander.
Another finalist is Malik Aziz, chief of a county police department near Washington, D.C. Aziz spent most of his career with the Dallas Police Department.
The third finalist is Mirtha Ramos, chief of a county police department near Atlanta. Ramos spent most of her career with Miami-Dade police.
The finalists are scheduled to take part in a public forum at 5 p.m. Monday, June 16, at Phoenix City Council chambers. It will be livestreamed on PHX TV and the city's YouTube.
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ICE has released a 79-year-old Cuban woman from the Eloy Detention Center, after she spent nine months there. Julia Benitez suffers from dementia and was known inside the detention center as "la abuela," or the grandmother. -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says agents arrested more than 20 people in a raid in Phoenix this week near 15th and Peoria avenues. -
State senators have given preliminary approval to what proponents are calling the first-ever guardrails on the use of automated license plate readers by police in Arizona. -
The vandalized camera was one of 17 placed throughout Phoenix in late February, as part of a city safety campaign that aims to alter driver behavior and supplement police traffic enforcement. -
Earlier this year, nine wild horses were found dead with evidence of bullet wounds in the Black Mesa Ranger District.
