AKRON, Ohio — Akron Mayor Shammas Malik hosted a news conference on Monday to provide an important update regarding the search for Akron’s next police chief.
Watch the complete news conference in the video player above.
The news conference was also streamed on the city’s Facebook page.
Brian Harding has been Akron’s Acting Police Chief since the beginning of the year after the department’s former chief, Steve Mylett, retired at the end of 2023.
During the news conference, Malik announced the retirement of Akron Fire Chief Joseph Natko, a new role he will undertake for the city, and a complication for the police chief search that the city's law team discovered in state law.
Read our full report on Monday's news conference here.
Watch our story on the initiatives that Harding is pushing for as acting police chief below:
RELATED: Akron's Acting Police Chief Brian Harding pushing for more community policing
As his first public engagement event since becoming Akron’s new mayor, Malik hosted a town hall in January to get the community’s feedback on the next chief.
Find out what the community wants - and doesn't want - in a new police chief in our report below:
RELATED: Akron hosts first townhall in search of Police Chief
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