Aurora’s new interim police chief Dan Oates sees his new job as a roughly six-month stint in which he believes he has three priorities: reducing crime, partnering with the community, and making the department more efficient, he said Tuesday. JennKovaleski
DENVER – Aurora’s new interim police chief Dan Oates sees his new job as a roughly six-month stint in which he believes he has three top priorities: reducing crime, partnering with the community, and making the Aurora Police Department more efficient, he said in his first interview since he started last week.
He said he took the interim job because of his love for the city and the department, and said he believes he will see the time pass “fairly quickly” before he can go back to retirement with his family in Florida. Oates said Tuesday that having the consent decree in place is a good start – a “roadmap,” he called it, on how to partner with the community, update the department’s policies, increase morale within the department and try to be more transparent with Aurora residents.
Oates said he thinks there is some low-hanging fruit in terms of policy changes that could be made and that he wanted to make more of an effort to be on the street with officers and in the community. Oates said that aside from staffing shortages, he feels the department is “in pretty good shape” despite the string of controversies it has gotten itself into over the past several years.
“It’s a lot easier here in Colorado to investigate misconduct and hold a police officer accountable than it was in Florida,” he said. “…I’ve testified in probably 30 or more arbitrations or civil service hearings over the course of my career around serious and challenging issues of discipline and holding cops accountable,” he said.
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