After months of weighing the possibilities, Pima Community College has chosen a new police chief.
Christopher Albers starts work Aug. 22, with a a salary of $105,553, about $6,000 more than his predecessor.
He inherits a department thatβs been led by three different people since 2013, and where three of seven full-time police dispatchers recently quit their jobs citing a βhostile work environment.β The former dispatchers recently asked PCCβs Governing Board to investigate.
A PCC news release noted Albersβ two decades of experience in campus law enforcement.
He has worked for the last six years as a senior police officer at Georgia Piedmont Technical College, and for five years before that was police chief at Georgia Perimeter College.
Albers also was deputy chief at Biola University, a small Christian school in California where he earned a bachelorβs degree in psychology and a masterβs in organizational leadership.
PCC took six months to announce the hiring decision. Albers was named as a finalist in February along with two others, one of whom later dropped out.
PCC has had an interim police chief since last year after Manny Amado, appointed chief in 2014, retired and took a job at a school in Colorado. Amado replaced former chief Stella Bay, who quit in 2013 amid allegations of poor leadership.
