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Seven months after Matt Harshberger left as chief of the Ypsilanti Police Department, City Manager Ed Koryzno has selected Lieutenant Amy Walker as the department’s new chief.
The announcement was made in a press release sent this afternoon. Walker, who has been working for YPD for 17 years, was one of six finalists interviewed at the beginning of the month.
When two committees selected by Koryzno, who has the sole responsibility to hire the chief of police, narrowed the list down to two candidates, the only two internal candidates up for the job where left to be interviewed by Koryzno.
Walker, along with Lieutenant Craig Annas, was interviewed by Koryzno this month.
After 15 years with the department, Walker was made lieutenant in 2007. She had served YPD as a detective and road patrol officer before that. Before 1992, when Walker started her employment with YPD, she had been an officer for the Eastern Michigan University Police Department for five years.
Walker has a bachelor’s degree from EMU, where she also attended school of police staff and command.
Harshberger left his position in Ypsilanti to take a similar post in Pittsfield Township.
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